Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: DEVFS is very good compared to UDEV | From | Felipe Alfaro Solana <> | Date | Tue, 23 Dec 2003 23:24:09 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 22:20, Jari Soderholm wrote: > Why could you develop it so that UDEV could create those > actual device files there also, then most linux > users would not need those horrible scipts anymore. > All that is then needed link from /sysfs to /dev dir.
Well, udev way of doing things is very similar to Solaris. While booting with -r, or by creating /.reconfigure, Solaris kernel scans the hardware and creates entries in /devices tree. The /dev entries are just symlinks to /devices entries.
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