Re: devfs vs. udev

[Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk>]

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On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:49:28AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:54:04PM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote:
> > 
> >    Surely udev needs the ability to make more than one device node or
> > symlink when a device is plugged in anyway, so I just see this as an
> > issue of writing the appropriate default configuration files.
> 
> More than one device node per device?  Why would you want that?

   OK, more than one actual node per device (i.e. per major:minor
pair) may not necessarily be required, but in devfs there are, for
example device nodes created in /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/device0/lun0/...
etc, and links to those device nodes created in /dev/discs/disc0/...
It can occasionally be useful to have the two distinct namespaces
available.

> And sure, it's just software, it can be made to do that, if someone
> sends me a patch... :)

   If it doesn't do it when I want it to do that, I'll send you the
patch. :)

   Hugo.

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