From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:54:33 +0000 Subject: Re: Bug#286040: please allow permissions.d to follow symlinks Message-Id: <20041221165433.GA30446@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20041217083115.GA4050@wonderland.linux.it> In-Reply-To: <20041217083115.GA4050@wonderland.linux.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:11:06AM -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > FYI, here's the word on udev and sysfs from one of the VMware folks on the > VMware community forum: > > > 1. Is there likely to be an evolution of VMWare to > > be compatible with udev? > > There is bug filled on this, but problem is that vmware supports > vmnet0-vmnet255 - and we do not want to pollute /dev with them, as normal > people need only 2 or 3. In future vmnet will use just one multiplexing > device, like Windows's vmnet does, but until then likelihood of udev being > supported is rather low. Maybe if SuSE 9.2/10 or RHEL4 will use udev, > something will have to be done about it, but I find sysfs really ugly and > hard to use. SuSE 9.2 and RHEL 4 use udev :) > > 2. Is setting up /dev/vmnet0 just a question of > > running MAKEDEV with the appropriate major and minor > > device numbers? (So that reconstructing the kernel > > modules can be avoided.) > > Yes. Just place appropriate mknod somewhere - probably beginning of > /etc/init.d/vmware is best place for them. That's a fine solution. I understand the vmware developer's position and don't have a problem with it. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ 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