From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rob Love Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:31:56 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4] 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 Tue, 2003-12-23 at 08:15, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This is pointless. The original point of sysfs and co was to present the > physical device tree, where these devices absolutely fit into. Why are > you doing this at all? Creating thse through udev doesn't make sense as > they need to be present anyway.. Creating them via udev is the point. Remember, the ultimate goal is to have udev in initramfs during early boot, and all of these vital devices will be created. For udev to work as intended, all devices on the system must be represented in sysfs. Rob Love ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&op=click _______________________________________________ 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