Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Oct 2003 11:10:41 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: devfs vs. udev |
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On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 06:58:17PM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: > 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.
Yes, symlinks are on the TODO list, as lots of people want them /dev/cdrom, /dev/pilot, etc.
thanks,
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