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

[Chris Friesen]

Chuck Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:26:36AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> > If anyone wants to do this _properly_, this is what to do:
>
> I might have missed something, but this is only for modular devices right?

Depends on what you mean by "this".

> No application to devices compiled in monolithically?

As devices are detected, hotplug is called (which then calls udev), and 
udev finds the new entries in /sys and adds the appropriate nodes in 
/dev.  Completely separate from udev, the hotplug framework also loads 
the module if the driver is not compiled-in.

Chris

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