One man's policy is another man's consistency...
> I've been using devfs for a while now. The only real problems I
> have with it are that changes to ownership and permissions are not
> inherently persistent and the chicken and the egg problem between
> device files and modules.
Persistence: that's currently pushed to user space, which is
consistent with one particular ideology.
Chooks and eggs: this is not a problem. Module autoloading works quite
well. All that is required is that /etc/modules.conf is correctly
configured, and attempts to access non-existent device nodes will
automagically cause the driver to be loaded and the nodes suddenly
appear. And before anyone complains about having to configure
/etc/modules.conf, I'll point out that you have to do that anyway to
get module autoloading to work.
Regards,
Richard....
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