Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 05 Oct 1999 14:49:20 -0700 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: USB device allocation |
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David Weinehall wrote: > > Oh, and have you actually ever tried a system running devfs (such as a > kernel patched with Richard Gooch' patch, or a Solaris-system), or? > > Hmmm. If USB isn't enough to convince, think about USB2 (128 devices/bus > if I'm not all wrong), FireWire, FibreChannel, SCSI-III, etc. Sooner or > later we need a solution to the problem with devices. And devfs is a very > good, thought-through, proven to work (been used in Solaris for many > years) and backward-compatible solution. And it's available now. >
Solaris does *not* use devfs; the /devices tree is an on-disk device node tree which is constructed at initialization time, and it is persistent. A much better solution, IMNSHO.
-hpa
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