>Nope: if CONFIG_DEVFS is enabled then drivers can only be accessed
>through devfs and symlinks to devfs.
Ick. This screams of enforcing policy; if someone wanted to update a
physical /dev from a devfs /devices (boot the machine, mount /devices,
update /dev from the contents of /devices, unmount /devices), they'd be
out of luck. And is it really worth the trouble to clutter up the
kernel ensuring that people can't do this (and what about device drivers
that have not been updated to populate a devfs; will support for them be
dropped, subject to someone going back and eventually coding this change
in?)
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david parsons \bi/ Working, intermittently, on his own devfs.
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