>> You can run devpubd. When a wedge and thus the dk* unit attaches, >> it runs the 01-makedev hook that creates the device node in /dev. > That's not a "mode". It's a clunky userland daemon that tries to > make up for the fact that we don't have a devfs.
Your wording is heavily biased. To bias in the other direction: I take it you'd rather have that policy hardwired into the kernel, where it can't be changed without kernel-hacking expertise and a reboot, and any bug takes down the whole system, rather than in userland, where it can be changed anytime, and bugs just cause that one piece to break? I would rather have the userland version. "Mechanism, not policy." /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
