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SubjectRe: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6?
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 08:02:46 +0100
Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> wrote:

> Le mar 09/12/2003 à 19:53, Måns Rullgård a écrit :
> > >> - for example my floppy is always present in the system, but I
> > >access> it like once a month or so
> > >
> > > Then, when you want to access it, a simple 'modprobe floppy' would
> > > work for you, right?
> >
> > Only if you are root.
>
> Come on ... the stock kernel from your distribution will do the
> modprobe for you when you access the floppy, I'm sure you're skilled
> enough to configure your own kernel to do the same.
> And if you don't want to recompile, just chmod +s modprobe - on your
> small machine which needs to save 60k, I bet you're the only user. Or
> use sudo.
>
> Xav

I was expecting this kind of reply. Like "if you have an older hardware you
can fuck off".

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