Re: Future devfs plans (sorry for previous incomplete message)

From: Norberto Bensa
Date: Mon Jul 26 2004 - 01:34:03 EST


Trent Lloyd wrote:
> Wouldn't a possible solution to do this to develop an extension to tmpfs to
> catch files accessed that don't exist etc and use that in conjuction
> with udev?

Why would you want to do that? If the device node doesn't exist -> there's no
hardware -> there's no need to load a driver/module.

udev/hotplug are doing the right thing (tm)

Regards,
Norberto
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