Re: devfs vs. udev

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:43:10PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 01:49, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:54:04PM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote:
> > > 
> > >    Surely udev needs the ability to make more than one device node or
> > > symlink when a device is plugged in anyway, so I just see this as an
> > > issue of writing the appropriate default configuration files.
> > 
> > More than one device node per device?  Why would you want that?
> > 
> > And sure, it's just software, it can be made to do that, if someone
> > sends me a patch... :)
> > 
> 
> Will udev remove the limit on the number of anonymous devices?

udev is a userspace program, it doesn't extend the capability of the
kernel in any manner.  If the kernel has such a limit, there's nothing
that udev can do about it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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