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Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de> writes: > maybe add this to the faq? > > Q: devfs did load drivers when someone tried to open() a non existing > device. will sysfs/hotplug/udev do this? > > A: there is no need to. I never like it when the answer is "you don't want to do this". It makes me think of a certain Redmond based company. > hotplug/sysfs/udev will create devices for all hardware supported by > the kernel and the available modules. it will do that during boot > up, and whenever new hardware is added. so you can expect all > devices be already present, no need for a devfs like mechanism. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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