Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 9 Aug 1998 00:16:59 +0100 (BST)


> I haven't done any inode registration request since I don't know how many
> and what inodes to reserve. DEVFS SEEMS TO SOLVE ALL THOSE PROBLEMS in a
> clear way. Come on, don't stay with the past - Whenever new strategies _do
> help_ us, don't stick with the old stuff.

Dev_fs breaks completely under such circumstances you mean. Firewire and USB
need potentially quite a lot of nonvolatile state storing. For that they need
a daemon if they have a daemon they don't need devfs

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