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SubjectRe: USB device allocation
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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