Re: (Semi-random) thoughts on device tree structure and devfs

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 04:06:59PM +0000, Iain Hibbert wrote:
> > I don't think it has to be or should be in the kernel. Basically,
> > /dev/dk3 gets created or is used by the kernel. A daemon is notified
> > (*cough* udevd) and that scans the device properties, finds the UUID and
> > creates /dev/uuid/2345324523453245. It also finds the label and creates
> > /dev/label/my-usb-stick. The latter is what you put in /etc/fstab.
> 
> Sorry I got confused - in your method, what is dk3 needed for?

It is still the device, the rest are just symlinks.

Joerg