From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262558AbTJIUyl (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:54:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262560AbTJIUyl (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:54:41 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:38113 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262558AbTJIUyj (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:54:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:54:13 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Ian Kent Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: devfs vs. udev Message-ID: <20031009205413.GA12222@kroah.com> Reply-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20031007142349.GX1223@rdlg.net> <20031007165404.GB29870@carfax.org.uk> <20031007174928.GB1956@kroah.com> <1065706989.3203.2.camel@raven.themaw.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1065706989.3203.2.camel@raven.themaw.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:43:10PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 01:49, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:54:04PM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: > > > > > > Surely udev needs the ability to make more than one device node or > > > symlink when a device is plugged in anyway, so I just see this as an > > > issue of writing the appropriate default configuration files. > > > > More than one device node per device? Why would you want that? > > > > And sure, it's just software, it can be made to do that, if someone > > sends me a patch... :) > > > > Will udev remove the limit on the number of anonymous devices? udev is a userspace program, it doesn't extend the capability of the kernel in any manner. If the kernel has such a limit, there's nothing that udev can do about it. thanks, greg k-h