why eth0 not in /dev

[Sascha Hauer]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:40:18AM +0800, zzs wrote:
> When barebox starts, devinfo can show eth0's info
> like this
> 
> 9200-EK:/dev devinfo eth0
> resources:
> driver: none
> bus: platform
> 
> Parameters:
>           ipaddr = 192.168.0.109
>          ethaddr =
>          gateway =
>          netmask =
>         serverip =
> 
> But I can't see it in /dev, Why?

Files are registered manually under /dev/ by device drivers when they
want to provide a file there. A network device does not have anything
useful to register as a file, so there is none. Files under /dev/ often
have the same name as the devices, but this does not have to be the
case, they are two different things.

Sascha


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