Re: Crazy Idea: Replacing /dev using sysfs over time

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 07:28:18PM -0400, Shawn Starr wrote:
> I wonder if in the future, we can just eliminate /dev altogether (or map it 
> via sysfs until older apps move away from /dev). It just seems we could 
> represent major,minor in a sysfs node: 

This comes up every few months.  Please read the archives for why this
is not acceptable.

thanks,

greg k-h
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