Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 Jun 1999 17:12:55 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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Richard Gooch wrote: > > H. Peter Anvin writes: > > Followup to: <199906072316.JAA05265@vindaloo.atnf.CSIRO.AU> > > By author: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> > > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > Why not? Assuming all your drivers have devfs support, you don't need > > > device support in your filesystems. > > > > Uh, yeah, right. > > So you disagree. But why? > > Regards, > > Richard....
Because I *still* think devfs is a good implementation of a bad idea.
-hpa
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