On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 04:14:31PM -0500, Drake Mobius wrote: > Hi, > > Hope you can help me out here, I know this isn't a udev-specific thing > but maybe you know: > Is there some historical reason network devices (i.e., eth0) don't > show up in the /dev fs? It seems to break with the 'everything is a > file' philosophy. Yes, it's historical. You control network devices through sockets, not files. > To compound matters, they DO show up under some other UNIX systems > (e.g. /dev/bge0 on my Sol10 box) And some other ones they do not :) thanks, greg k-h -- 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
