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SubjectRe: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6?
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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.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se

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