Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6?

[Bob]

Witukind wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 15:37:55 -0800
> Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>  
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> > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 02:09:47PM -0500, Bob wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:36:26PM +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >        
> > > >
> > > > > Whats the general feeling about devfs now? I remember Christoph
> > > > >          
> > > > and >others making some nasty remarks about it 6months ago or so,
> > > > but later >noted christoph doing some slashing and burning thereof.
> > > >        
> > > >
> > > > > Is it 'nice' yet? 
> > > > > Andrew Walrond
> > > > >  
> > > > >
> > > > >          
> > > > I would say it's deprecated at the very least. sysfs and udev are
> > > > supposed to provide equivalent functionality, albeit by a somewhat
> > > > different mechanism.
> > > >        
>
> > From the udev FAQ:
>
> Q: But udev will not automatically load a driver if a /dev node is opened
>   when it is not present like devfs will do.
> A: If you really require this functionality, then use devfs.  It is still
>   present in the kernel.
>
> Will it have this 'equivalent functionality' some day?
>
>
>  
Shouldn't hotplug handle it?

hotplug and udev and sysfsutils are together at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug
so hotplug is part of the sysfs and udev program.

-Bob D

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