I think there may be a bit of confusion here. The PC-style ports
already exist, and Linux already handles them. If I build a modular
kernel (which I do), the current version of Linux will already do the
fbm needed to load the drivers and give me access. If I use a
devfs, current 2.3.x's will do the fbm needed to load the drivers and
give me access without any changes to userland. But if I use devd as
described in recent email on the kernel list, I either have to have
the device nodes already installed or I have to bloat my kernel with
the detection parts of the drivers or I have to build the drivers
into the kernel.
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david parsons \bi/ ... to say nothing of the additional userspace daemon
\/ and the conversion table to convert from the new
guaranteed to be unusable without userspace massaging
kernel namespace to a namespace I can use. Shoot,
Redmond couldn't do better than that.
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