Greg KH wrote:

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So e.g. lilo should depend on sysfs and *a*special*configuration* of udev,
while the admin MUST NOT use mknod'ed device files nor manually create
symlinks pointing to them, and not use relative path names?
That's plain stupid.

If sysfs is stupid, then use an ioctl, have I objected to that?

I think he's objecting to the dependency on udev configuration, not to 
sysfs.

	-hpa