Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:28:00 -0700 | From | Brian Swetland <> | Subject | Re: USB device allocation |
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[Jeff Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com>] > On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 01:54:24PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: > > My /dev takes 107kbyte on disk (2,245 entries!), this is even just a small > > fraction of devices. > > This may sound like flamebait or ignorance, but here goes: Why can't > USB devices just show up dynamically under /proc/usb/dev/ or something > like that? Are traditional device nodes really necessary?
Wait! Why couldn't all devices just show up dynamically? You'd only see the devices that were actually on the system (at that moment). Wait, somebody already made this work! Ye gods, the anarchy.
Why should a usb zip drive, parallel zip drive, or scsi zip drive be different to access? They all speak the same protocol. You don't have a different driver for a scsi disk on a buslogic controller and a scsi disk on an adaptec controller, do you?
Brian
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