Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Oct 1999 16:06:02 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device a lloc ation) ) |
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On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Horst von Brand wrote: > Reasons against devfs: > - Permanent attributes are kludged on
Not necessarily a bad thing. procfs and devpts have these too
> - Impacts system administration, making device managing a lot less Unixy
This is not necessarily a bad thing.
> - What can be done with devfs can be done without it.
Same can be said of kerneld/kmod. It's purely a convenience factor. But there we are, kmod is in the kernel.
-Dan
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