Messages in this thread | | | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] ndevfs - a "nano" devfs | Date | Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:35:50 -0500 |
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On Monday 27 June 2005 02:19, Mike Bell wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 04:43:05PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > So no, I'm not going to be submitting this. But what it is, is a nice > > proof-of-concept for people who "just can't live without a in-kernel > > devfs" to show that it can be done in less than 300 lines of code, and > > only 6 hooks (2 functions in 3 different places) in the main kernel > > tree. That is managable outside of the main kernel for years, with > > almost little to no effort. > > Except that it isn't. > > The "everything in the root" model just doesn't seem to work. It's been > so long since I used linux without devfs I hadn't thought about how > things like ALSA and the input subsystem have gone beyond supporting > device nodes in a subdirectory to actually requiring device nodes to be > in a subdirectory.
AFAIK there is no requirement in input subsystem that devices should be created under /dev/input. When devfs is activated they are created there by default, but that's it.
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