From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
To: Jari Soderholm <Jari.Soderholm@edu.stadia.fi>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: DEVFS is very good compared to UDEV
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 23:24:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1072218249.5813.2.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sfe8cdc2.027@mail2.edu.stadia.fi>
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 22:20, Jari Soderholm wrote:
> Why could you develop it so that UDEV could create those
> actual device files there also, then most linux
> users would not need those horrible scipts anymore.
> All that is then needed link from /sysfs to /dev dir.
Well, udev way of doing things is very similar to Solaris. While booting
with -r, or by creating /.reconfigure, Solaris kernel scans the hardware
and creates entries in /devices tree. The /dev entries are just symlinks
to /devices entries.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-23 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-23 21:20 Jari Soderholm
2003-12-23 21:50 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-23 22:01 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 22:21 ` Hua Zhong
2003-12-23 22:30 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 23:00 ` Hua Zhong
2003-12-23 23:03 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 23:14 ` Greg KH
2003-12-23 23:26 ` viro
2003-12-24 0:00 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-23 23:03 ` grundig
2003-12-23 23:05 ` viro
2003-12-24 2:24 ` Paul Jackson
2003-12-23 22:24 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana [this message]
2003-12-27 11:57 ` Ian Kent
2003-12-24 3:33 Albert Cahalan
2003-12-24 18:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
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