[openib-general] user CM uses devfs

Roland Dreier roland at topspin.com
Tue May 31 16:14:53 PDT 2005


    William> Why does the userlevel CM use devfs to create device
    William> nodes? Userlevel verbs and mad layers appear to rely on
    William> udev.

Good point.  devfs is dying a richly deserved death in a month (cf
Documentation/feature-removal.txt) -- we should just use the standard
character device stuff and let udev handle things.

 - R.



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