Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:58:17 +0100 | From | Hugo Mills <> | Subject | Re: devfs vs. udev |
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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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