From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262074AbTLLVeZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:34:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262078AbTLLVeY (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:34:24 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:58509 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262074AbTLLVeQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:34:16 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:32:47 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Chris Friesen Cc: David T Hollis , "J.A. Magallon" , Lista Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: udev for dummies Message-ID: <20031212213247.GB24643@kroah.com> References: <20031211221604.GA2939@werewolf.able.es> <1071183521.5900.36.camel@dhollis-lnx.kpmg.com> <3FD92CA4.20606@nortelnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FD92CA4.20606@nortelnetworks.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:49:08PM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote: > David T Hollis wrote: > >On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 17:16, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > >>What am I missing / misunderstanding ? > > >You may be overthinking it a bit. I just set up udev on my box and it's > >working quite well. It's not really intending to completely replace > >/dev, rather it provides a dynamic device structure based on hotplugged > >devices. > > Greg can speak to this better than I, but udev is most certainly > intended to completely replace /dev. The thing is that not everything > exports the required information in /sys just yet. Yes, this is true. thanks, greg k-h