Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:52:37 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: rihad <rihad@mail.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel-digest@lists.us.dell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 021 release
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On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:16:06PM +0400, rihad wrote:
> 
> Does the devfs/udev /dev entry get removed when doing rmmod? I though 
> not.

Yes it does.  If the sysfs entry goes away.

> But since the module isn't there anymore, doing mount /dev/cdrom 
> /cdrom would give "No such device". Not a problem per se, but then 
> probably rmmod -a isn't as a wise thing to do with udev as it is with 
> devfs. Bad.

rmmod -a has not been a wise thing to do since 2.2 came out.  It can
easily take down a working box...

thanks,

greg k-h
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