Re: [ANNOUNCE] ndevfs - a "nano" devfs

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Dienstag, 28. Juni 2005 09:40 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 04:26:00PM -0700, Mike Bell wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 05:35:50PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Things which accept a path to an event file as an argument will work
> > just fine. But anything which tries autodiscovery HAS to be able to find
> > the device nodes. Think directfb, most (but not all) of the X patches,
> > any user-space driver that wants to find the hardware it owns, etc.
> > 
> > This illustrates nicely my reasons for preferring devfs.
> > 
> > 1) Predictable, canonical device names are a Good Thing.
> 
> And impossible for the kernel to generate given hotpluggable devices.

That is not true. The kernel can generate predictable device names.
It just cannot generate _stable_ device names under all circumstances.

	Regards
		Oliver
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