On Tuesday 06 December 2005 00:34, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Sunday 04 December 2005 23:59, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 December 2005 23:22, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 04:46:31AM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > > > Well, devfs does have some abilities udev doesn't: hotplug/udev
> > > > doesn't detect everything, and can result in rarer or non-PnP devices
> > > > not being automatically available;
> > >
> > > Are you sure about that today?
> >
> > Nope, but I don't see how udev can possibly detect something that doesn't
> > let the OS know it's there-- except, of course, loading the driver for it
> > and seeing if it works.
>
> Stuff shows up in /sys whether or not Linux has a driver loaded for it.
Only if Linux is aware it exists. I'm thinking of those old ISA cards and
such.
--
Luke-Jr
Developer, Utopios
http://utopios.org/
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