Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> Doesn't the kernel always create the main block device for this device?
> If so, udev will catch that.

But udev should probably also create all the sub-nodes if it doesn't 
already.

And it really has to create _all_ of them, exactly because there's no way
to know ahead-of-time which of them will be available.

Then, user space can just access "/dev/sda1" or whatever, and the act of 
accessing it will force the re-scan.

			Linus
-
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/