On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 18:50 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 18:37, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 17:45 -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
>
> > No. The idea behind udev is that it is supposed to scan all the devices
> > present at boot time and create device nodes (aka Cold Plugging). The
> > current scripts only scan certain classes of devices though, and video
> > is not included.
>
> However, if I have char-major-226 listed as an alias in modprobe.conf,
> when X tries to open a device node with char major 226, shouldn't the
> kernel attempt to automount that alias, or is that not supported
> anymore?
with udev the device node only gets created on driver load....
Ah, I get it. I'm an old devfs user from back in the day, but never took
the time to look into how udev operates.