Re: USB device allocation

Jeff Noxon (jeff@planetfall.com)
Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:17:47 -0500


On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 01:54:24PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
> My /dev takes 107kbyte on disk (2,245 entries!), this is even just a small
> fraction of devices.

This may sound like flamebait or ignorance, but here goes: Why can't
USB devices just show up dynamically under /proc/usb/dev/ or something
like that? Are traditional device nodes really necessary?

Or maybe a USB filesystem, ala devpts...

Regards,

Jeff

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