Followup to: <20000412162328.A2068@alcove.wittsend.com>
By author: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I'm "on the fence". It makes my life simpler with things like the
> device drivers I work on (getting them to show up in /dev - the Computone
> Multiport drivers can create 520 separate devices when fully loaded) but
> there are a lot of gotcha's where the fix (like taring up devices to
> preserve permissions and symlinks at boot and halt) is just a butt-ugly
> kludge.
>
So instead there are 520 separate chunks of kernel memory... a device
driver I'm hacking on right now is about 3x the size with devfs
support than without (not to mention I can't find any documentation on
the devfs kernel API, so I just gave up.)
-hpa
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