Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 1998 21:58:08 -0500 (EST) | From | linux kernel account <> | Subject | Re: disk naming proposal & devfs (fwd) |
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On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> The names have been suggestions, but system administrators who didn't > like them were always free to use different arguments with mknod, or > edit the MAKEDEV script, etc. Since the names weren't enshrined in > code, it avoided the argument. People who wanted their own special > names could do so in the privacy of their own systems. (In general, > usually but not always, the distributions generally stayed with the > recommended names.)
They still can, it just requires a kernel hack... You'de be supprised how many apps depend on the default names (/dev/dsp is my fav. example)..
> > - Ted >
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