Re: USB device allocation

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Tue, 05 Oct 1999 18:20:45 -0400


David Weinehall wrote:
> Oh, and have you actually ever tried a system running devfs (such as a
> kernel patched with Richard Gooch' patch, or a Solaris-system), or?

Is Solaris dynamic? I'm pretty sure 'boot -r' or creating
/etc/reconfigure causes a boot script to scan the hardware and creates
device nodes as needed. That's an entirely userland solution which
keeps /dev nice and trim.

Jeff

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Open source programming		|    as the machinery does what it's
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