From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750777AbWFSIwU (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:52:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750881AbWFSIwU (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:52:20 -0400 Received: from iona.labri.fr ([147.210.8.143]:9391 "EHLO iona.labri.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750777AbWFSIwT (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:52:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:52:17 +0200 From: Samuel Thibault To: Greg KH Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.17 Message-ID: <20060619085217.GG4253@implementation.labri.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Samuel Thibault , Greg KH , "H. Peter Anvin" , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com References: <20060618221343.GA20277@kroah.com> <20060618230041.GG4744@bouh.residence.ens-lyon.fr> <4495F5C3.1030203@zytor.com> <20060619031521.GA4651@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20060619031521.GA4651@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH, le Sun 18 Jun 2006 20:15:21 -0700, a écrit : > On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 05:54:27PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > It would be nice if udev could be fed not just from the kernel, but from > > the repository of modules that are available for loading. That may > > require additional module information. > > There's no reason it could not be, but usually a simple, "modprobe loop" > works good enough for everyone :) Not for non-root people. (And yes, they may want to do non-root things with such virtual devices, in the dummy sequencer case for instance). Samuel