Re: Migrating to larger numbers

[Nathan Hand]

On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 07:34:47PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > 
> > devfs is just another way of mapping filenames to device drivers. Could
> > not the driver you list somehow tap into the devfs mechanism? The old way
> > with numbers will be limited in the long run.
> > 
> 
> That's just silly.  The devfs idea is that policy goes into the kernel
> -- that's backwards.  Policy is one of the thing that you want to keep
> miles away.

If devfs is so bad, could we have reasons why. Policy isn't a good
reason (the policy's already in Documentation/devices.txt).

If you're claiming names->devices are policy, but numbers->devices
are not, then I'm confused and bewildered.

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