From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261159AbUGVTRc (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:17:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266913AbUGVTRc (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:17:32 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:60310 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261159AbUGVTRU (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:17:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:12:55 -0400 From: Greg KH To: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" Cc: Andrew Morton , Adrian Bunk , corbet@lwn.net, bgerst@didntduck.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New dev model (was [PATCH] delete devfs) Message-ID: <20040722191255.GA28813@kroah.com> References: <40FEEEBC.7080104@quark.didntduck.org> <20040721231123.13423.qmail@lwn.net> <20040721235228.GZ14733@fs.tum.de> <20040722025539.5d35c4cb.akpm@osdl.org> <20040722070453.GA21907@kroah.com> <40FFA5BD.5000304@pixelized.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40FFA5BD.5000304@pixelized.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 01:32:13PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > > The worse is the lack of stable name of devices, in udev too. > I.e. microcode loader (Intel CPU) needs a device, which was so > named (last time I controlled): When was the last time you _used_ the microcode device? Yeah, there are still a small number of drivers that are not in sysfs, so udev doesn't know about them, but right now I'm guessing we cover about 95%. I'm waiting for someone else to fix up the rest, if they really have one of those odd devices :) thanks, greg k-h