Re: devfs - why not ?

[Aaron Sethman]

Another idea is to also have things like initial ownership and file
permissions stored in this file to.  The main issue I can see with devfs,
where the hell does one find the names for everything.  Like say at
somepoint down the road we decide that /dev/foo/foo1 isn't a good name
for our device, suddenly we now need to go through and file where the hell
that information is stored at.

Aaron

On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Aaron Sethman wrote:

> It seems to me that the largest issue that most people have with devfs is
> namespace.  Perhaps something that should be considered is a .h file that
> keeps customized namespace stored in it.  At least this way namespace
> decisions won't be scattered through the kernel and not stuck in devfsd if
> the user doesn't want to do that.  Then at least you can do neat things
> like CONFIG_DEVFS_OLD_STYLE_LAYOUT or CONFIG_DEVFS_NEW_STYLE_LAYOUT or for
> the truly sick at heart CONFIG_DEVFS_I_LOVE_SOLARIS_AND_ITS_DEVICES_TREE.
> 
> Just an idea...If nobody wants to work on something like this, I might
> have the time for it...
> 
> Aaron
> 
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