From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kevin P. Fleming" Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:26:42 +0000 Subject: Re: devfs gone, and now? Message-Id: <40DD7992.9000801@backtobasicsmgmt.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Jan Engelhardt wrote: > devfs is tagged obsolete and I'm worrying about what modules will now do, > because with devfs they could create a node in /dev whenever they were loaded, > and remove that, if unloaded. That's now missing, or is there an udev solution? Yes, read the udev documentation. > As I currently see it, udev creates a "static" device node in /dev which > persists even across reboots, so if you load a lot of modules which create a > lot of block/char/etc. devices in /dev, they would probably be removed upon > 'rmmod', but not if you just reboot. No, read the udev documentation. Everything you've described here works perfectly with udev. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.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