On Mondayen den 14 January 2002 15.32, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> The main reason for devfsd is to autoload modules and manage device > permissions not to provide legacy links. On legacy system without devfs > modules are autoloaded basing on device numbers and you do not notice > it. On system with devfs you not only do not have device nodes to > trigger autoloading but you (theoretically) do not even have fixed > device numbers because they are managed by devfs itself. > > Permissions management is not as critical it just comes as extra goody. > Still it is something legacy system cannot do. > > If you preload all your drivers (either compiling them all into kernel > or preloading all modules) you can omit devfsd. Permissions management > issue still remains but it the same as on system without devfs. > > If we ever have hotplug for PCI ready ... then we return to this :-) > > -andrej That was beatiful - thanks for the moment guran -- Mandrake Linux 8.2 Cooker kernel-2.4.17.2mdk-1-1mdk version:2002-01-13-07:19
