> How would an anti-devfs person support USB? Remember, the whole system
> is dynamic. You can add and remove devices on a live system. You can
> have several devices of the same type, there is no adjustable ID like
> SCSI has... It will put you through hell.
It seems pretty obvious that USB devices must have some way of
uniquely identifying a particular unit otherwise you couldn't
differentiate between, say, two USB hard disks on the same bus.
It also seems obvious that a USB device driver would have to
make this information accessible to the user in some way.
Whether a kernel service such as devfs uses this information
to create a named device node or whether a user service (such
as a hypothetical usbd) does it does not appear to be a
fundamental problem.
Mike
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