Re: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device a

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Thu, 7 Oct 1999 16:06:02 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Reasons against devfs:
> - Permanent attributes are kludged on

Not necessarily a bad thing. procfs and devpts have these too

> - Impacts system administration, making device managing a lot less Unixy

This is not necessarily a bad thing.

> - What can be done with devfs can be done without it.

Same can be said of kerneld/kmod. It's purely a convenience factor. But
there we are, kmod is in the kernel.

-Dan

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