Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Oct 2003 10:47:58 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: devfs vs. udev |
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On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:19:04PM +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk> writes: > > > 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. > > Now you say "plug in". How does udev deal with devices that don't > correspond something that can be plugged, physically or virtually > (PCI)? I'm thinking of things like ttys, loopback devices, etc.
Look at sysfs. If it's in sysfs (like ttys and block devices) udev will handle it.
thanks,
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