Re: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation)

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Thu, 07 Oct 1999 14:27:04 -0400


Stephen Frost <sfrost@ns.snowman.net> said:

[...]

> The persistance that devfsd adds is, as I recall, less than elegant.
> A better solution would be nice, almost like a special kind of symlink,

...that has to stay around just like files in /dev do right now, ...

> perhaps even something created by mknod which uses a major,minor assigned to
> it that is basically just 'talk to devfs', which will then figure out what
> device to talk to in /devices.

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