Re: Devfs, was Re: Migrating to larger numbers

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 20:28:08 +1000

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DAVID BALAZIC writes:
> >From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
> >Think about it. You don't create /dev/cd/something/cd3. What you do is
> >create /dev/cd/ide which points to /dev/ide/cd. Simple.
> >Thus /dev/cd/ide/blah points to /dev/ide/cd/blah.
>
> Aha , bit what about /dev/super-ide , /dev/esdi/ , /dev/firewire,
> /dev/fibre-channel and such appear ?
> I'm pushing it , OK ...

Sigh. We've been through this before. Edit your boot scripts. Edit
your devfsd configuration file. Download a new version of devfsd.
Whatever.

The kernel doesn't care.

Regards,

Richard....

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