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SubjectRe: Devfs, was Re: Migrating to larger numbers
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Richard Gooch wrote:

> > Hmmm. I'm not sure why. Currently (from what I've seen in this
> > thread) you have a scheme of /dev/<interface>/<device>/*. What I'm
> > saying is that you can also have say /dev/<device>/<interface> and
> > let programs cycle through that. Those that are interested in seeing
> > what's on an interface look in /dev/<interface>. Those who are
> > looking for a device go for /dev/<device>. The driver just reports
> > its stuff in two places. The difference is the code should really be
> > almost nonexistant, no? Or am I getting something phenomally wrong?
>
> OK, I misunderstood you. It seemed to me that you were proposing that
> *all* CD-ROM entries would appear in a single directory (no
> sub-directories). That would be tricky. But the scheme you outline
> would be pretty easy. You don't even need to modify devfs to support
> this. All you need to do is set up some symlinks (from user space).

Not only don't you need to modify devfs for this, you don't even need to
_use_ it :)

Matthew.


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