Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Oct 1999 21:13:06 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: USB device allocation |
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Nathan Hand wrote: > This is why I suggested losing the devfs FILESYSTEM but retaining what > is devfs's INTENTION. Use the existing devfsd to maintain nodes on the > disk. Most of the benefits are kept. Some problems are addressed.
It would be nice to have (a) a standard list of kernel devices, with their major and minor numbers, and (b) some sort of generic userspace daemon which take handle hotplug of any sort: PCMCIA, USB, ...
Jeff
P.S. I still think devfs is important for embedded solutions.
-- Custom driver development | Never worry about theory as long Open source programming | as the machinery does what it's | supposed to do. -- R. A. Heinlein
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