Hi, > reading some of the source of udev, I noticed what I would suspect to be a [...] could someone possibly explain to me why there is that special codepath for cases where the device node does already exist, so I can write a patch that's not gonna break other functionality? Florian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html