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    SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] ndevfs - a "nano" devfs
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    On Monday 27 June 2005 02:19, Mike Bell wrote:
    > On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 04:43:05PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
    > > So no, I'm not going to be submitting this. But what it is, is a nice
    > > proof-of-concept for people who "just can't live without a in-kernel
    > > devfs" to show that it can be done in less than 300 lines of code, and
    > > only 6 hooks (2 functions in 3 different places) in the main kernel
    > > tree. That is managable outside of the main kernel for years, with
    > > almost little to no effort.
    >
    > Except that it isn't.
    >
    > The "everything in the root" model just doesn't seem to work. It's been
    > so long since I used linux without devfs I hadn't thought about how
    > things like ALSA and the input subsystem have gone beyond supporting
    > device nodes in a subdirectory to actually requiring device nodes to be
    > in a subdirectory.

    AFAIK there is no requirement in input subsystem that devices should be
    created under /dev/input. When devfs is activated they are created there
    by default, but that's it.

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    Dmitry
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