Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Jan 2004 14:16:04 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: udev and devfs - The final word |
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On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:01:40PM +0100, Witukind wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:59:38 -0800 > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:18:55AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:29:42PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > > 2) We are (well, were) running out of major and minor numbers for > > > > devices. > > > > > > devfs tried to fix this one by _getting rid_ of those numbers. > > > Seriously - what are they needed for? > > > > But devfs failed in this. The devfs kernel interface still requires a > > major/minor number to create device nodes. > > Let's be more precise and not say that "devfs" failed this, but that the > current implementation of devfs failed this.
Um, that's all we have to go by right now, sorry.
> If devfs works good on FreeBSD, it probably means that the current > devfs for Linux is badly designed, not that the idea of devfs is bad.
I have no idea how FreeBSD implemented devfs.
If you know how FreeBSD implemented devfs, and how it solves all of the problems that I detailed in my original posting, I would be interested.
thanks,
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