From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261506AbTLWPcH (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:32:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261298AbTLWPcG (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:32:06 -0500 Received: from peabody.ximian.com ([141.154.95.10]:57825 "EHLO peabody.ximian.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261506AbTLWPcD (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:32:03 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4] From: Rob Love To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Greg KH , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20031223131523.B6864@infradead.org> References: <20031223002126.GA4805@kroah.com> <20031223002439.GB4805@kroah.com> <20031223002609.GC4805@kroah.com> <20031223131523.B6864@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1072193516.3472.3.camel@fur> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-8) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:31:56 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@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