Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)
Richard Gooch (Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Sun, 9 Aug 1998 09:57:18 +1000
Alan Cox writes:
> > 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
What state are you referring to? The permissions? And how many device
nodes are you talking about?
Regards,
Richard....
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