Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266052AbUAFAxk (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:53:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266055AbUAFAxk (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:53:40 -0500 Received: from CPE-24-163-213-29.mn.rr.com ([24.163.213.29]:42427 "EHLO www.enodev.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266052AbUAFAxe (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:53:34 -0500 Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word From: Shawn To: Greg KH Cc: Mark Mielke , Linus Torvalds , Andries Brouwer , Daniel Jacobowitz , Rob Love , rob@landley.net, Pascal Schmidt , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <20040106004343.GB1043@kroah.com> References: <20040105030737.GA29964@nevyn.them.org> <20040105132756.A975@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20040105205228.A1092@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <1073341077.21797.17.camel@localhost> <20040105222559.GA3513@mark.mielke.cc> <1073343916.21797.21.camel@www.enodev.com> <20040106004343.GB1043@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1073350411.21797.30.camel@www.enodev.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:53:31 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 863 Lines: 22 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@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/