Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jun 1999 10:53:36 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: Devfs, was Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Richard Gooch wrote:
> I'm not suggesting that the user has to worry about this. This is done > in the boot scripts or in devfsd. I just don't thing that this belongs > in devfs (i.e. the kernel) itself. There's no need. > Creating the symlinks only needs to be done once at boot time.
I don't see that as being the case. What about your USB cdrom? Or your pcmcia cdrom? Or your firewire cdrom? cdrom's is just one example as well, there could be a number of other devices where the devices fall into a similar category ('cdrom') and there exists more than one and they are connected via different drivers. The only problem I see is exactly what one of the things devfs was trying to help get rid of, a cluttered /dev. Now you've got /dev/<interface> and /dev/<device> directories. Though, I suppose it isn't as bad if there are only so many devices in a system, and the directories are only created if a device of that type exists.
Stephen
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