Messages in this thread | | | From | Luke-Jr <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel | Date | Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:34:20 +0000 |
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On Tuesday 06 December 2005 00:34, Rob Landley wrote: > On Sunday 04 December 2005 23:59, Luke-Jr wrote: > > On Sunday 04 December 2005 23:22, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 04:46:31AM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote: > > > > Well, devfs does have some abilities udev doesn't: hotplug/udev > > > > doesn't detect everything, and can result in rarer or non-PnP devices > > > > not being automatically available; > > > > > > Are you sure about that today? > > > > Nope, but I don't see how udev can possibly detect something that doesn't > > let the OS know it's there-- except, of course, loading the driver for it > > and seeing if it works. > > Stuff shows up in /sys whether or not Linux has a driver loaded for it.
Only if Linux is aware it exists. I'm thinking of those old ISA cards and such. -- Luke-Jr Developer, Utopios http://utopios.org/ - 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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