Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: /proc/dev | Date | 6 Jan 1998 10:46:06 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.199801060945.UAA27719@vindaloo.atnf.csiro.au>, Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU> wrote:
>Nope: if CONFIG_DEVFS is enabled then drivers can only be accessed >through devfs and symlinks to devfs.
Ick. This screams of enforcing policy; if someone wanted to update a physical /dev from a devfs /devices (boot the machine, mount /devices, update /dev from the contents of /devices, unmount /devices), they'd be out of luck. And is it really worth the trouble to clutter up the kernel ensuring that people can't do this (and what about device drivers that have not been updated to populate a devfs; will support for them be dropped, subject to someone going back and eventually coding this change in?)
____ david parsons \bi/ Working, intermittently, on his own devfs. \/
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