From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964951AbWFSWSN (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:18:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964954AbWFSWSN (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:18:13 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:54431 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964951AbWFSWSM (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:18:12 -0400 Message-ID: <4497228F.9030108@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:17:51 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Barkalow CC: "Alexander E. Patrakov" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Joshua Hudson Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.17 References: <20060618221343.GA20277@kroah.com> <20060618230041.GG4744@bouh.residence.ens-lyon.fr> <4495F5C3.1030203@zytor.com> <4495FF59.2010100@zytor.com> <8e6f94720606182255u400964c2v1ea16221ffc5c94d@mail.gmail.com> <44964EDC.3030104@ums.usu.ru> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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