Re: devfs and udev

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:47:41PM +0300, insecure wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 October 2003 22:41, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:28:09PM +0300, insecure wrote:
> > > What am I supposed to do, starting to use mknod again? Uggggh...
> >
> > Provide me with a kernel name to devfs name mapping file so that I can
> > create a "devfs like" udev config file for people who happen to like
> > that naming scheme.
> 
> It seems that we have a bit of misunderstanding here.
> 
> I just don't want to go back to /dev being actually placed on
> real, on-disk fs.
> 
> I won't mind if naming scheme will change as long
> as device names start with '/dev/' and appear
> there (semi-)automagically. That's what I call devfs.
> If udev can do this, I am all for that.

udev can do this.  Is there some documentation that you read that has
suggested otherwise?

greg k-h
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