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SubjectRe: udev for dummies
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,

greg k-h
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