From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joerg Sommer Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:31:26 +0000 Subject: Re: Hardware Abstraction Layer Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org begin Greg KH wrote: > 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. >>=20 >> 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. Why you removed this? IMO it is a very useful feature to only load a module if it is requested. Do you really think this is not needed? J=F6rg. end. --=20 "Computer games don't affect kids. If Pacman would have affected us as children, we would now run around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetetive music." ------------------------------------------------------- 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