From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262878AbTJGV1p (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:27:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262882AbTJGV1p (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:27:45 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:32488 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262878AbTJGV1k (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:27:40 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@users.sourceforge.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: devfs and udev Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 23:27:37 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20031007131719.27061.qmail@web40910.mail.yahoo.com> <200310072128.09666.insecure@mail.od.ua> <20031007194124.GA2670@kroah.com> <200310072347.41749.insecure@mail.od.ua> <20031007205244.GA2978@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:PbhEEBKnPuzKuUjzpjE81e9MmCc= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH writes: >> > > What am I supposed to do, starting to use mknod again? Uggggh... >> > >> > Provide me with a kernel name to devfs name mapping file so that I can >> > create a "devfs like" udev config file for people who happen to like >> > that naming scheme. >> >> It seems that we have a bit of misunderstanding here. >> >> I just don't want to go back to /dev being actually placed on >> real, on-disk fs. >> >> I won't mind if naming scheme will change as long >> as device names start with '/dev/' and appear >> there (semi-)automagically. That's what I call devfs. >> If udev can do this, I am all for that. > > udev can do this. Is there some documentation that you read that has > suggested otherwise? It's been my understanding that udev creates device nodes in a regular filesystem. If this is the case, things like unclean reboots will leave stale files behind. It will also not be easy to bootstrap. Correct me if am wrong. -- Måns Rullgård mru@users.sf.net