From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264881AbTLKLFg (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 06:05:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264873AbTLKLFg (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 06:05:36 -0500 Received: from AGrenoble-101-1-4-17.w217-128.abo.wanadoo.fr ([217.128.202.17]:55693 "EHLO awak") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264881AbTLKLFf convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 06:05:35 -0500 Subject: Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6? From: Xavier Bestel To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <1070963757.869.86.camel@nomade> <20031209183001.GA9496@kroah.com> <1071039765.1790.94.camel@nomade> <20031210210614.625ccfcc.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> <1071134837.1789.123.camel@nomade> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Message-Id: <1071140719.869.139.camel@nomade> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:05:19 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Le jeu 11/12/2003 à 11:15, Måns Rullgård a écrit : > I was objecting to the udev > way of thinking that all drivers are always loaded. If you want to > use udev and on-demand loading, you need to do some tweaking. Technically it's hotplug which assumes that all drivers are always to be loaded. But you are right. And even there, I'd say hotplug+udev has the advantage: being userland scripts, they can be tweaked to meet your needs (like on-demand loading only your floppy, in your case). Unlike devfs. Mechanism, not policy, etc. Xav