Re: USB device allocation

david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
6 Oct 1999 17:11:20 -0700


In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.10.9910061124090.30158-100000@anime.net>,
Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> wrote:
>On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 danielt@digi.com wrote:
>> It would seem that the only reason to keep it out of the
>> kernel would be to keep it from becoming standard.
>
>Doesn't freebsd have something like devfs as well? I dont think the
>freebsd developers are stupid...

Richard's devfs is better than the FreeBSD one. I'm running FreeBSD
on some servers now, and I've found I can't create new entries in
a devfs'ed /dev, which does Bad Things to trying to set up software
disk arrays.

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