Already done. See Richard Gooch's work on 'devfs', which adopted a naming
scheme much like you're suggesting, but with quite a bit of user feedback,
and quite a bit more flexibility that the nearest competition (Solaris).
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/kernel-patches.html
Many of us are happily using this system in the real world, mainly because
of it's other benefits (autoconfiguration of /dev, elimination of major
and minor numbers, etc). Quite nice.
-- Edward S. Marshall <emarshal@logic.net> [ What goes up, must come down. ] http://www.logic.net/~emarshal/ [ Ask any system administrator. ]Linux labyrinth 2.2.2-ac7 #1 Sat Mar 6 11:06:57 CST 1999 i586 unknown 1:45pm up 0:08, 2 users, load average: 1.24, 0.59, 0.26
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