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

Chris Friesen
2003-12-12T17:13:44Z

Chuck Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:26:36AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
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>>If anyone wants to do this _properly_, this is what to do:
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> I might have missed something, but this is only for modular devices right?

Depends on what you mean by "this".

> No application to devices compiled in monolithically?

As devices are detected, hotplug is called (which then calls udev), and
udev finds the new entries in /sys and adds the appropriate nodes in
/dev. Completely separate from udev, the hotplug framework also loads
the module if the driver is not compiled-in.

Chris

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