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From: Norberto Bensa <norberto+linux-kernel@bensa.ath.cx>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Future devfs plans (sorry for previous incomplete message)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 03:32:42 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200407260332.43030.norberto+linux-kernel@bensa.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040726062435.GA22559@thump.bur.st>

Trent Lloyd wrote:
> Wouldn't a possible solution to do this to develop an extension to tmpfs to
> catch files accessed that don't exist etc and use that in conjuction
> with udev?

Why would you want to do that? If the device node doesn't exist -> there's no 
hardware -> there's no need to load a driver/module.

udev/hotplug are doing the right thing (tm)

Regards,
Norberto

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-26  6:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-26 17:37 Future devfs plans (sorry for previous incomplete message) Adam J. Richter
2004-07-26  3:34 ` Tim Connors
2004-07-26  6:24 ` Trent Lloyd
2004-07-26  6:32   ` Norberto Bensa [this message]
2004-07-26  7:11     ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-07-26  9:09   ` Måns Rullgård
2004-07-28  0:12     ` Trent Lloyd
2004-07-28  1:43       ` Måns Rullgård
2004-07-26  9:38 ` Ville Herva
2004-07-27  1:03 ` Matt Mackall
2004-07-28  3:16   ` Ian Kent
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-28  4:16 Adam J. Richter

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