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SubjectRe: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation)
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Stephen Frost <sfrost@ns.snowman.net> said:

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> The persistance that devfsd adds is, as I recall, less than elegant.
> A better solution would be nice, almost like a special kind of symlink,

...that has to stay around just like files in /dev do right now, ...

> perhaps even something created by mknod which uses a major,minor assigned to
> it that is basically just 'talk to devfs', which will then figure out what
> device to talk to in /devices.
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