Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6?

Oliver Hunt
2003-12-09T22:46:23Z

Måns Rullgård wrote:

> Oliver Hunt <ojh16@student.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
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>>Måns Rullgård wrote:
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>>>Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de> writes:
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>>>>maybe add this to the faq?
>>>>
>>>>Q: devfs did load drivers when someone tried to open() a non existing
>>>>device. will sysfs/hotplug/udev do this?
>>>>
>>>>A: there is no need to.
>>>
>>>I never like it when the answer is "you don't want to do this". It
>>>makes me think of a certain Redmond based company.
>>>
>>
>>No... that's MacOS.. it does everything you want it to do... if you
>>think otherwise, you're *wrong*,
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>
> Quite true, I've never been able to use the old MacOS for more than a
> few minutes without a total system crash, only fixable by pulling the
> plug. MacOS is right, I don't want to use it, and it didn't let me.
> Perfect.
>
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>>although this isn't as applicable in MacOS X...
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> It didn't crash, but it made me log out very quickly.
>
I'm currently doing development under macos x, and have come to the
conclusion that macos does some things well, others, not so well...
There's certainly a lot that can be learned from it (sometimes we can
learn what not to do -- The dock would be a good example of this :) )

--Oliver