Has kmemps even been supported in recent years?
If a useful thing goes into the kernel and the developers of userland
tools abandon the old-style interfaces in favor of the new interface,
I'm not going to blame the kernel when I take that new interface out
and the tools go belly-up.
(And thats one of the nice things about devfs instead of some
hypothetical ``do devfs, but break the interface so that it's not
usable without some large expensive daemon'' alternative; it may
be a new interface, but it's backwards-compatable with the
previous interface so I can disable it without stomping all over
userland.)
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david parsons \bi/ The only use for a "break the interface" replacement
\/ is that it would get the devices registry into the
kernel so a devfs patch could be done against that.
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