Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jan 1998 21:02:14 -0600 (CST) | From | Dan Taylor <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: /proc/dev |
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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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