>That all sounds very much like something which will hit us >back some day. I'm not sure, if udev should publish such dead >text files in /dev, it does not seem to fit the usual >APIs/assumptions where /sys and /dev match, and libudev >provides access to both. It all sounds more like a database >for a possible netdevname library, which does not need to be >public in /dev, right? The char device nodes under /dev/netdev/ do seem to adhere to the assumption of what is there under /sys and /dev match. With regards, Narendra K -- 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