Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:29:22 +1100 | | From | Richard Gooch <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] devfs v99.11 available |
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James Simmons writes: > > > > Okay. I'm just curious. Where did you get the idea of using /dev/vc/ > > > from. Is this some sort of standard I'm unaware of ? What technical > > > reason is their for this move? > > > > It's desirable for /dev to contain subdirectories rather than having > > everything lumped into the top-level directory. It makes it easier to > > see what you have and also makes things easier to manage. > > > > I can't remember who chose /dev/vc/ in this particular case, but the > > principle of moving things into subdirectories is fully supported by > > Linus. In fact, he wanted me to go further than I had :-) > > Okay. I'm curious. What did Linus have in mind?
He wanted me to move the SCSI device entries from directories like /dev/sd, /dev/sg, /dev/sr and so on to a "logical physical" heirarchy under /dev/scsi, where subdirectory names map to the SCSI address components (i.e. bus, target, lun).
Also, he wanted me to rip out the compatibility entries so the kernel was left with a clean namespace.
> Do I hear linux having a Hardware graph like IRIX in the future as > well?
<coy> Where do you hear this? </coy> Regards,
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