Followup to: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10002162211480.18606-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
By author: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> > <broken record>
> > The longer it takes for devfs to go into the kernel, the more people
> > will throw things into procfs, with all the problems that implies.
> > Hell, I did it myself with MTRR.
> > </broken record>
>
> You see, Richard, there is a tiny problem. Many people will _really_ want
> to configure DEVFS out of their kernels. Procfs is much more conservative
> wrt dcache...
>
It won't be if people start treating it as an ersatz devfs. The
alternative to devfs should be traditional on-disk /dev.
-hpa
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