Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation) | Date | 8 Oct 1999 19:19:32 -0700 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.05.9910081848010.32297-100000@ns.snowman.net>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@ns.snowman.net> wrote:
>On 7 Oct 1999, I wrote:
>> devfs simply provides a way for the kernel to tell userland what >> devices it has, using the de facto standard naming conventions >> that everybody uses. > > Not everyone uses that, in fact, Solaris
Read the last sentence as ``the de facto standard naming conventions ON LINUX that everybody uses.'' Bringing Solaris into the argument is pretty pointless, because it already has a (really really badly implemented) devfs.
____ david parsons \bi/ The best devfs I've seen is the one on Linux. \/
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