devfs - interesting news

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Joel Hammer:
> This brings up the question. How did devfs get into the kernel with only
> one maintainer?

The same way the VM maintainer does, and the IDE maintainer, and
the USB maintainer, and...
 
> And, can we avoid its replacement and just go back to the bad old days?

Heavens, yes.

> I believe lindows came precompiled with devfs, and of course, I wouldn't
> dream of compiling a lindows kernel without devfs, even if I could get
> the thing to compile, which I can't.

Kurt
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