Messages in this thread | | | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Subject | Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6? | Date | Tue, 09 Dec 2003 21:53:37 +0100 |
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Oliver Hunt <ojh16@student.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
> Måns Rullgård wrote: > >> Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de> writes: >> >>>maybe add this to the faq? >>> >>>Q: devfs did load drivers when someone tried to open() a non existing >>>device. will sysfs/hotplug/udev do this? >>> >>>A: there is no need to. >> >> I never like it when the answer is "you don't want to do this". It >> makes me think of a certain Redmond based company. >> > No... that's MacOS.. it does everything you want it to do... if you > think otherwise, you're *wrong*,
Quite true, I've never been able to use the old MacOS for more than a few minutes without a total system crash, only fixable by pulling the plug. MacOS is right, I don't want to use it, and it didn't let me. Perfect.
> although this isn't as applicable in MacOS X...
It didn't crash, but it made me log out very quickly.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se
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