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SubjectRe: Linux-2.3.51, and the pre-2.4 series..
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Sorry, Alan. It WAS there. And was removed by LINUS's request. So...
> Ok so Linus was wrong.

Hmm.

> > P.S. Of course you can return old /dev/tty0 ... /dev/tty64 with devfsd if you
> > want.
> To be compliant to any previous Linux devfsd is mandatory then. And since
> the FHS is basically essential to any distribution that means devfsd is if
> you use devfs.

I personally greatly appreciate having a much less cluttered /dev -and- a
clean heirarchy of devices. The -only- reason I have devfsd running is for
X. Everything else uses the cleanly styled approach.

I consider devfsd backwards compatibility, and done in userspace so it's
very easy to change policy.

-d


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