Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jun 1999 10:48:26 +0100 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: Devfs, was Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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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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