From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264929AbUGZGc7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 02:32:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264931AbUGZGc7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 02:32:59 -0400 Received: from host85.200-117-133.telecom.net.ar ([200.117.133.85]:57832 "EHLO smtp.bensa.ar") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264929AbUGZGc6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 02:32:58 -0400 From: Norberto Bensa 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.82 References: <200407261737.i6QHbff04878@freya.yggdrasil.com> <20040726062435.GA22559@thump.bur.st> In-Reply-To: <20040726062435.GA22559@thump.bur.st> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200407260332.43030.norberto+linux-kernel@bensa.ath.cx> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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