From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 22:52:37 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 021 release Message-Id: <20040310225237.GE24336@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20040303153403.21649.81059.Mailman@linux.us.dell.com> <4048D503.10808@mail.ru> <20040309081948.GI22057@kroah.com> <404D9966.6080903@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <404D9966.6080903@mail.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: rihad Cc: linux-kernel-digest@lists.us.dell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:16:06PM +0400, rihad wrote: > > Does the devfs/udev /dev entry get removed when doing rmmod? I though > not. Yes it does. If the sysfs entry goes away. > But since the module isn't there anymore, doing mount /dev/cdrom > /cdrom would give "No such device". Not a problem per se, but then > probably rmmod -a isn't as a wise thing to do with udev as it is with > devfs. Bad. rmmod -a has not been a wise thing to do since 2.2 came out. It can easily take down a working box... thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&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