Re: [QUESTION/PROPOSAL] udev (fwd)

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 20:27, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:

> If I understand well, currently, when kernel detects new device, it 
> creates all important files in /sys for it, excluding device file.
> 
> So, (sorry if it was asked 100000000 times...
> ... but) why when kernel detects new device or module is loaded, no device 
> file in sysfs is created? The device files in /dev would be only links to 
> these in /sys. 
> 
> This way we could stop care about major/minor numbers and leave it to sysfs...
> And it maybe could decrease the possible races related to udev because it 
> would only create or remove links to files in /sys.
> 
> Programs will be able to easily find, for what device and where located in 
> system (buses, etc.) the device file in /dev is - with readlink.
> 
> And it should make the entire process more clear.

This is more or less how Solaris works... In Solaris, /dev entries are
just symlinks to entries under the /devices tree which is much like
/sys: a tree-like structure which is composed of buses, devices et all.

This is a feature I've always liked from Solaris.

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