Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:32:47 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: udev for dummies |
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:49:08PM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote: > David T Hollis wrote: > >On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 17:16, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > >>What am I missing / misunderstanding ? > > >You may be overthinking it a bit. I just set up udev on my box and it's > >working quite well. It's not really intending to completely replace > >/dev, rather it provides a dynamic device structure based on hotplugged > >devices. > > Greg can speak to this better than I, but udev is most certainly > intended to completely replace /dev. The thing is that not everything > exports the required information in /sys just yet.
Yes, this is true.
thanks,
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