Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)

Michael Shields (shields@crosslink.net)
07 Aug 1998 04:02:03 +0000

In article <199808051536.LAA27295@dcl.MIT.EDU>,
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> This is much simpler than putting all devices in /dev into a synthentic
> filesystem such as devfs, which I continue to think is overkill and
> unnecessary. Since it's a loadable kernel module, distributions that
> want to use it don't need to install a patch to the 2.2 kernel, but they
> can just load the module.

Will this be available as compiled-in code also? Not everyone runs
with modules enabled.

-- 
Shields, CrossLink.


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