On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 08:12:44AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > [not sure if this is the right forum for this, but i suspect others > > on this list might be interested so ... there you go.] > > The linux-hotplug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx list is where this should be > discussed, please take it there. > > > as part of a device driver course i may very well be teaching in the > > near future (still waiting to hear), i'm thinking of adding a sizable > > section on how udev works (after i figure all that out, of course.) > > > > currently, the canonical udev document is this one: > > > > http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html > > That doc could almost be removed entirely now, as no one should need > to mess with udev rules "by hand" anymore thanks to devtmpfs and the > default udev rules that are in all distros (with one notable > exception.) > > What is your goal in redoing this? Why would a user/developer ever > need to mess with udev on their own anymore? > > Ideally, it should all "just work" now, and I think it does given > your previous emails about the confusion as to how your driver was > automagically creating the correct device nodes without any help > from you :) so you don't see much need for that level of detail for udev anymore? at the very least, i can see the need for what i asked about before -- how a misc device suddenly showed up under /dev, and with what properties. is there a doc explaining that somewhere? because i definitely went looking before i asked that question here. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
