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SubjectRe: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)
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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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