Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.17

[H. Peter Anvin]

Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
>
> > Will Dyson wrote:
> > > Providing the information about what devices a virtual driver will
> > > register when loaded seems like a good idea.
> > Why? This information is currently useless. What you want is that something
> > knows that you want this driver to be loaded.
>
> The point is that you *don't* want those modules to be loaded. What you 
> want is for the kernel to know that those modules are available, and 
> therefore mention that drivers could be found for those devices, and 
> therefore udev would create the device nodes for them, even though the 
> kernel doesn't contain a module that drives them yet.

The kernel doesn't need to know.  udev needs to know.

	-hpa
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