Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.17

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> 
>> Will Dyson wrote:
>>> Providing the information about what devices a virtual driver will
>>> register when loaded seems like a good idea.
>> Why? This information is currently useless. What you want is that something
>> knows that you want this driver to be loaded.
> 
> The point is that you *don't* want those modules to be loaded. What you 
> want is for the kernel to know that those modules are available, and 
> therefore mention that drivers could be found for those devices, and 
> therefore udev would create the device nodes for them, even though the 
> kernel doesn't contain a module that drives them yet.
> 

The kernel doesn't need to know.  udev needs to know.

	-hpa