Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux-2.3.51, and the pre-2.4 series.. | Date | Sat, 11 Mar 2000 23:31:30 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > > Sorry, Alan. It WAS there. And was removed by LINUS's request. So... > > Ok so Linus was wrong. > Hmm.
Oh dear I forgot. For the benefit of some US citizens please insert <humor> and </humor> tags as appropriate.
> I personally greatly appreciate having a much less cluttered /dev -and- a > clean heirarchy of devices. The -only- reason I have devfsd running is for > X. Everything else uses the cleanly styled approach.
It is an interesting question. Its not very unix and that breaks many things that 'know' about Unix but it is a lot neater.
> I consider devfsd backwards compatibility, and done in userspace so it's > very easy to change policy.
Which is exactly where it should be.
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