Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Oct 1999 15:19:28 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: USB device allocation |
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David Weinehall wrote: > > > > > > Why is that? You get the same layout with a dynamic-filesystem; the > > > difference is that with dynamic devices it becomes FAR easier to support > > > plug'n'play devices. > > > > > > > You get persistence; because the /devices tree is augmented, but not > > blindly. > > That's what devfsd is for (persistance.) >
Of course, once you have a daemon in userspace anyway, the kernel filesystem is just bloat.
-hpa
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