Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 1999 16:28:48 +1000 | | From | Richard Gooch <> | | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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Nate Riffe writes: > On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Nathan Hand wrote: > > > If devfs is so bad, could we have reasons why. Policy isn't a good > > > reason (the policy's already in Documentation/devices.txt). > > > > Fear. Ignorance. Resistance to change. Not having read the documentation > > or actually tried devfs. Etc. > > What exactly does hpa refer to when he says 'policy'? It's pretty vague > to me.
One man's policy is another man's consistency...
> I've been using devfs for a while now. The only real problems I > have with it are that changes to ownership and permissions are not > inherently persistent and the chicken and the egg problem between > device files and modules.
Persistence: that's currently pushed to user space, which is consistent with one particular ideology.
Chooks and eggs: this is not a problem. Module autoloading works quite well. All that is required is that /etc/modules.conf is correctly configured, and attempts to access non-existent device nodes will automagically cause the driver to be loaded and the nodes suddenly appear. And before anyone complains about having to configure /etc/modules.conf, I'll point out that you have to do that anyway to get module autoloading to work.
Regards,
Richard....
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