From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:12:10 +0000 Subject: Re: Hardware Abstraction Layer Message-Id: 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 On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 08:11:14PM +0000, Joerg Sommer wrote: > begin Greg KH wrote: > > Yes it will. See my OLS paper from this year for lots more information > > about it. > > Nice to meet you here. :) I read this paper some time ago and one > question stayed open: How does udev handle device requests? devfs has the > nice feature to tell modprobe that a device is requested. But I don't > found any similar in your paper. How gets udev informed that a program > wants to open /dev/foobar? It doesn't :) If you _really_ need that kind of functionality, then you will have to use devfs. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ 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