Re: devfs - why not ?

[Richard Gooch]

Horst von Brand writes:
> Peter Samuelson <[e-mail]> said:
> > I could have sworn this was Richard's idea, not mine.  devfsd, properly
> > implemented, can solve a *lot* of these problems.  If the current
> > devfsd is a WIP, don't blame it on devfs design problems.
> 
> devfsd, working on a on-disk device tree does solve the problems
> rather nicely IMHO. devfs is a horrible kludge, and seeing Linus
> include that in his tree makes me seriously doubt his taste this one
> time. And the devfsd idea is Linus's, AFAIKT.

Just one of the many things you've gotten wrong. I came up with
devfsd.

				Regards,

					Richard....
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