Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: driverfs is not for everything! (was: [PATCH] /proc/scsi/map ) | Date | Tue, 25 Jun 2002 06:47:16 +0800 | From | John Summerfield <> |
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> > It's a matter of where to draw the line. Obviously when we're talking > physical devices, my tcpip connection to www.yahoo.com is not one. My PS/2
I'm far from expert here, but isn't the network card important here?
> > If a device can be accessed by multiple machines concurrently, it should not > be in driverfs. >
Back in the 1970s I used a computer where disk drives, tape drives and RAM chould be physically connected to and used by more than one computer at once.
It was an IBM S/370 model 168 MP; you might argue the toss on the RAM, but the disk drives were beyond argument.
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