Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:13:16 -0500 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6? |
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Chuck Campbell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:26:36AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > >>If anyone wants to do this _properly_, this is what to do: >> >> > > I might have missed something, but this is only for modular devices right?
Depends on what you mean by "this".
> No application to devices compiled in monolithically?
As devices are detected, hotplug is called (which then calls udev), and udev finds the new entries in /sys and adds the appropriate nodes in /dev. Completely separate from udev, the hotplug framework also loads the module if the driver is not compiled-in.
Chris
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