From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262781AbTJGUxG (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:53:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262835AbTJGUxG (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:53:06 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:4784 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262781AbTJGUxD (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:53:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 13:52:44 -0700 From: Greg KH To: insecure Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: devfs and udev Message-ID: <20031007205244.GA2978@kroah.com> References: <20031007131719.27061.qmail@web40910.mail.yahoo.com> <200310072128.09666.insecure@mail.od.ua> <20031007194124.GA2670@kroah.com> <200310072347.41749.insecure@mail.od.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200310072347.41749.insecure@mail.od.ua> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:47:41PM +0300, insecure wrote: > On Tuesday 07 October 2003 22:41, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:28:09PM +0300, insecure wrote: > > > What am I supposed to do, starting to use mknod again? Uggggh... > > > > Provide me with a kernel name to devfs name mapping file so that I can > > create a "devfs like" udev config file for people who happen to like > > that naming scheme. > > It seems that we have a bit of misunderstanding here. > > I just don't want to go back to /dev being actually placed on > real, on-disk fs. > > I won't mind if naming scheme will change as long > as device names start with '/dev/' and appear > there (semi-)automagically. That's what I call devfs. > If udev can do this, I am all for that. udev can do this. Is there some documentation that you read that has suggested otherwise? greg k-h