devfs - interesting news

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:50:19 -0400
Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:

> 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 think the direction devfs went to somewhat automating the
creation/deletion of device handles was a good thing. It also sort of
removes the temptation of the distro builder from moving where things
are. Is it /dev/raw1 or /dev/raw/raw1? Still, you have to figure out the
name of the damn thing and which one to use no matter. Our Linux device
drivers do not use devfs mainly because al-Q-SCO did not compile in support
in the distros we used when making the drivers. We were just planning on
adding that support. Glad we are behind schedule :-)

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