Ted now seems to be advocating something like devfs but mounted on
/devices, and have a daemon like devfsd populate/depopulate /dev.
And I suspect he's advocating having /devices be non-useful (i.e. to
look quite different than a reasonable /dev), just for the sake of
denying people the ability to mount re-badged-devfs onto /dev.
No, I'm advocating that device inodes in /devices have names which are
uniquely identify the device driver which registered the device plus the
location on the bus. This is useful information which a user-mode
daemon would need. If you make the names reflect a "reasonable" /dev,
it makes the job of the user mode daemon much more difficult.
- Ted
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