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SubjectRe: PROPOSAL: /proc/dev
I have been looking at modifying a certain driver to support
cards that could possibly result in well over a thousand physical
devices needing to be accessed with multiple modes.

Anyone who can demonstrate that this would be better done with
the existing structure than a devfs that does not depend on Major/Minor
number pairs might just persuade me that devfs is a bad idea.

Daniel Taylor

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:

> In article <980106172624.ZM29102@golden.net> you write:
> >What's wrong with MAKEDEV? Works great.... gives you every device node you need
> >and more. You can symlink too.
> >
> >If it ain't broke, don't fix it. My 1/50th of a dollar.
>
> a small programm (maybe a "device manager") or so could examine your
> system, and remove everything not needed. it shouldn't be hard to do
> that. i'm not sure if we realy need to do this in kernel space.
>
> andreas
>


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