Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) | Date | Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:24:03 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> It basically means you have started in the wrong end of the problem. > There is a need for Linux do develop a decent device driver management; > unfortunately devfs is a hack to patch it rather than tacking the > admittedly hard problem.
I don't think you can call it a hack. There are two ways of handling dynamic devices
1. The kernel gives userspace info and userspace builds a /dev.
2. The kernel builds a /dev
#2 is devfs #1 is devfs with a script walking it.
You can actually rip out chunks of devfs for #2 but the hooks you need to build the information database happen to be exactly the ones you need for a full devfs
Alan
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