On Thursday 28 June 2007, Yan Seiner wrote: > First there way static /dev > then there was devfs > then there was udev > now there is mdev (which is udev but for busybox) > > I guess I don't always understand the problems that the newer systems > are fixing. Don't get me wrong, I use udev and devfs quite a bit and I > wouldn't go back to the static /dev.
mdev and udev are exactly the same ... the kernel notifies userspace of an event (device is created) and they parse /sysfs for metadata about the device so that it can create the proper device node the reason mdev exists is merely because udev is much larger than many people need/want > For example, this is the first time I've heard that sysfs is deprecated. it isnt being deprecated, some entries in sysfs were deprecated ... entries that mdev relied upon -mike
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