Re: udev and devfs - The final word

[Shawn]

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.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/