Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6?

Greg KH
2003-12-09T09:11:02Z

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:00:34AM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le mar 09/12/2003 à 08:56, Greg KH a écrit :
> > A: That is correct. If you really require this functionality, then
> > use devfs. There is no way that udev can support this, and it
> > never will.
>
> That's something I don't understand: I thought that with a well
> configured hotplug+udev system, you'll never have to worry about loading
> drivers on device-node open() because all drivers should be auto-loaded
> and all device-nodes should be auto-created.
>
> Am I wrong ?

No, you are correct. That's why I'm not really worried about this, and
I don't think anyone else should be either.

thanks,

greg k-h