From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266077AbTLISxd (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:53:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266069AbTLISxd (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:53:33 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:45536 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266067AbTLISx3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:53:29 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6? Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 19:53:26 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1070963757.869.86.camel@nomade> <20031209183001.GA9496@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9/Tj/uj7nwlMCtp7MQdR7YOaMlg= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH writes: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:03:42PM +0100, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote: > >> - just because a device is present in the system doesn't mean that >> it's kernel modules are loaded > > No, but one could argue that it should :) One could equally well argue that it need not. >> - for example my floppy is always present in the system, but I access >> it like once a month or so > > Then, when you want to access it, a simple 'modprobe floppy' would work > for you, right? Only if you are root. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se