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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:49:31 +0000
Subject: Re: Fwd: Why don't net devices show up under /dev?
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On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 04:14:31PM -0500, Drake Mobius wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Hope you can help me out here, I know this isn't a udev-specific thing
> but maybe you know:
> Is there some historical reason network devices (i.e., eth0) don't
> show up in the /dev fs? It seems to break with the 'everything is a
> file' philosophy.

Yes, it's historical.  You control network devices through sockets, not
files.

> To compound matters, they DO show up under some other UNIX systems
> (e.g. /dev/bge0 on my Sol10 box)

And some other ones they do not :)

thanks,

greg k-h