Re: USB device allocation
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Tue, 05 Oct 1999 15:19:28 -0700
David Weinehall wrote:
> > >
> > > Why is that? You get the same layout with a dynamic-filesystem; the
> > > difference is that with dynamic devices it becomes FAR easier to support
> > > plug'n'play devices.
> > >
> >
> > You get persistence; because the /devices tree is augmented, but not
> > blindly.
>
> That's what devfsd is for (persistance.)
>
Of course, once you have a daemon in userspace anyway, the kernel
filesystem is just bloat.
-hpa
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