Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Aug 1998 17:37:19 -0500 (CDT) | From | Shawn Leas <> | Subject | Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???) |
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On 9 Aug 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> But why having devfs at all? It seems devfs is the continual solution > in search of a problem...
Remember, some situations just need a daemon. Are you sitting there, trying to tell me that devfs is flawed because it won't solve ALL of your USB and FIREWIRE problems without a daemon????
In regular /dev land you need many daemons, non standard /dev directory layouts to get past the *million inodes* problem, an ioscan program to auto-detect devices on boot or demand optionally creating inodes in a non-standard /dev layout, etc etc etc?????
People, it's time we just give it a try, and see what happens when it matures fully. Remember, Richards DevFS is only so old, and he is the ONLY person doing anything with it.
All I'm saying is to give the NEW APPROACH a chance. It is a better angle at which to attack many device node problems in my opinion.
Please back up your baseless biased opinions at least with baseless biased fact. ;)
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