Re: udev for dummies

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:49:08PM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote:
> David T Hollis wrote:
> >On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 17:16, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> 
> >>What am I missing / misunderstanding ?
> 
> >You may be overthinking it a bit.  I just set up udev on my box and it's
> >working quite well.  It's not really intending to completely replace
> >/dev, rather it provides a dynamic device structure based on hotplugged
> >devices.
> 
> Greg can speak to this better than I, but udev is most certainly 
> intended to completely replace /dev.  The thing is that not everything 
> exports the required information in /sys just yet.

Yes, this is true.

thanks,

greg k-h
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