Re: USB device allocation

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Wed, 06 Oct 1999 21:13:06 -0400

Nathan Hand wrote:
> This is why I suggested losing the devfs FILESYSTEM but retaining what
> is devfs's INTENTION. Use the existing devfsd to maintain nodes on the
> disk. Most of the benefits are kept. Some problems are addressed.

It would be nice to have (a) a standard list of kernel devices, with
their major and minor numbers, and (b) some sort of generic userspace
daemon which take handle hotplug of any sort: PCMCIA, USB, ...

Jeff

P.S. I still think devfs is important for embedded solutions.

-- 
Custom driver development	|    Never worry about theory as long
Open source programming		|    as the machinery does what it's
				|    supposed to do.  -- R. A. Heinlein


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