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SubjectRe: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)

What would it be like if you had two pcmcia scsi controlers?

I've never used PCMCIA for anything except NICs which dont have device
names.

On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Depending on how USB is implemented under Linux, it may require a dynamic
> > namespace that dev_fs can provide. Note that I did _not_ say that _only_
> > dev_fs can provide this, but that it _can_. Currently, however, it is the
> > _only_ solution that does provide this.
>
> Fact:
>
> Its not. PCMCIA does this all without dev_fs and has for ages. You don't
> need dev_fs to do dynamic name spaces. Also dev_fs places the name space
> management in the kernel which violates the great "policy in user space"
> rule of Unix.
>
> > Similarly, dev_fs may provide the groundwork for the next "great thing",
> > perhaps the idea that Ted came up with re: volume names (which being a
> > former NetWare admin *does* appeal to me greatly). But the simple fact is
> > that dev_fs is here today, Ted's idea is not.
>
> Fact:
>
> It is UUIDs have been in ext2fs for a while
>
>
> Otherwise carry on...
>
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