From: Olivier Blin <oblin@mandriva.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev and usb.agent
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:36:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38xwfl00k.fsf@dynamo.mandriva.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510151611080.8404@terminal.gregs.com>
Greg Bell <gregbell@znet.com> writes:
>> Catch up! udev does _all_ hotplug today.
>
> Oh, oops. OK I've done some more reading. However the FAQ at
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ
>
> ...says/implies that udev is for creating the /dev nodes and not much else
> because that's where devfs went wrong (trying to do too much). They even
> refer the reader to HAL for the fancier more desktopy stuff.
Maybe the udev FAQ should be updated then.
It's quite confusing to read this:
"udev is for managing /dev, not loading kernel drivers."
--
Olivier Blin
Mandriva
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-27 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-15 6:14 udev and usb.agent Greg Bell
2005-10-15 18:27 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-15 23:33 ` Greg Bell
2005-10-16 11:57 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-17 0:42 ` Greg Bell
2005-10-17 1:44 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-27 10:36 ` Olivier Blin [this message]
2005-10-28 1:09 ` Kay Sievers
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