Re: udev and devfs - The final word
From: Shawn
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 19:56:56 EST
I'm embarrassed to say I did not read that.
I'm starting to wonder what some folks are complaining about. WRT
practicality and useability, udev about covers it once alsa and vmware
;) get sysfs-ified.
My own foray into udev was a little lacking owing to these little
issues.
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 18:43, Greg KH wrote:
> In summary, udev doesn't care squat about the major/minor that the
> kernel has used for a device. It merely uses those numbers and creates
> a /dev entry with them, assigned to a name that it comes up with.
>
> Does that help out? The udev OLS paper might also help explain some of
> this.
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