Le mercredi 04 janvier 2006 à 01:06 +0000, Stephen Gran a écrit : > > Can you give us a way to change permissions of a device that can be > > plugged or unplugged? > > Of course. With a static /dev/, the node is always there to be operated > on whether or not there is hardware associated with the device node. > You can chmod it whether there is a device plugged in or not.
Which is completely unuseful as the device can be mapped to different hardware later on. > udev largely solves the problem of 'my /dev tree is ugly with all those > extra things in it'. Until it also solves all of the problems it brings > with it, and provides an upgrade path better than 'upgrade the kernel > first', I have to remain unconvinced. It seems you are misunderstanding the purpose of udev. Its most important benefit is to signal the user space that a device has been plugged in, through HAL and dbus. The clean /dev tree is only a side effect. Furthermore, udev doesn't bring new problems. You can't have a persistent naming scheme with a static /dev either, unless you are loading modules by hand. If you still want to load your modules by hand, udev won't prevent you from doing so. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
