Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jan 2002 19:58:25 +0000 (GMT) | From | Paul Jakma <> | Subject | Re: Hardware Inventory [was: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?] |
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On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> For one, driverfs can be made mandatory. Sure we could do the same for > devfs, but there are probably an army of people who don't want > a mandatory devfs.
but devfs internally is a driver API for registering stuff. it can be made mandatory without requiring the user-side interface, ie /dev dir, to be mandatory.
(indeed, i dont mount devfs on /dev).
obviously devfs must also be made to pass Al's goodness-o-meter. :)
in terms of the kernel interface it'd be daft to have multiple device registration interfaces.
--paulj
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