Re: USB device allocation

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Wed, 06 Oct 1999 10:46:11 -0400

David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> said:

[...]

> 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.

And next to impossible to handle per-device persistent data (permissions
come to mind).

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