Re: devfs patch v3

Andreas Jellinghaus (aj@dungeon.inka.de)
Thu, 15 Jan 1998 20:17:38 +0100

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>I _really_ like this idea. As maintainer of the Uniform cdrom driver, I
>would much prefer to see all cdrom devices show up under /dev/cdrom, i.e:
>
>/dev/cdrom/hdb
>/dev/cdrom/mcd
...

note :
this breaks compatibility as a lot of systems use symbolic
links in /dev, like cdrom -> hdd, mouse -> ttyS0, root -> hda1, ...

andreas

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