On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 01:27:38AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Hi! > Do you remember when for decades we had to populate /dev using mknod > (using makedev or something) -- both on Linux and on Unices that predated > it? Then when udev came to make device creation dynamic. > > > That the kernel can now do most of this work by itself is news to me.
This is managed by devtmpfs for almost a decade https://lwn.net/Articles/331818/ BTW, udevd does not create device nodes for few years, now. All mknod() calls were removed. udev is for changing permissions, makeing symlinks and querying device database (with help of hwdb). -- Tomasz Torcz 72->| 80->| xmpp: zdzich...@chrome.pl 72->| 80->| _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
