From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Marco d'Itri" Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 11:02:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 021 release Message-Id: <20040303110250.GA3841@wonderland.linux.it> List-Id: References: <20040303000957.GA11755@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20040303000957.GA11755@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mar 03, "Alexander E. Patrakov" wrote: >On Wednesday 03 March 2004 15:19, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> On Mar 03, Michael Weiser wrote: >> >Normally with static /dev one has a /dev/dsp device for example. As soon >> >as an application tries to open it the kernel would try to load a module >> >"sound" or "char-major-something" if sound support isn't compiled into >> >it. Now with udev I'll never get /dev/dsp in the first place and there's >> >> Read the FAQ: drivers for hardware devices are the easy part, because >> hotplug will automatically load them. >The FAQ is right for PCI and USB devices. It is wrong for "undetectable" >devices like floppy and abstract entities like loop, ppdev, lp, ppp_generic, >nbd and so on. I know. This is why I wrote about "hardware devices" (I think floppy drives are an exception to this rule). -- ciao, | Marco | [4873 scH.yeftCuCeY] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel