Re: [PATCH] devfs v99.11 available

James A Simmons (jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:59:49 -0500 (EST)

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> > Okay. I'm curious. What did Linus have in mind?
>
> He wanted me to move the SCSI device entries from directories like
> /dev/sd, /dev/sg, /dev/sr and so on to a "logical physical" heirarchy
> under /dev/scsi, where subdirectory names map to the SCSI address
> components (i.e. bus, target, lun).

Actually I like that idea. What prevented you from doing this?

> > Do I hear linux having a Hardware graph like IRIX in the future as
> > well?
>
> <coy>
> Where do you hear this?
> </coy>

It was just a suggestion.

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