Re: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation)

Stephen Frost (sfrost@ns.snowman.net)
Fri, 8 Oct 1999 18:02:11 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 7 Oct 1999 danielt@digi.com wrote:

> 90% of the objections to having devfs in the kernel
> are easily solved with "well don't use it then".
> The remaining objections can be or _have_been_
> dealt with in a rational manner.
>
> I personally do not use MISC binaries. I do not
> use CPU's that lack FPU's. I have no FDDI or ATM
> cards. I rarely use a system that has a sound card.
>
> All of these things are in the kernel, and I wouldn't
> suggest removing them just because they are "unUnixlike"
> or that I personally have no use for them.
> I do NOT compile options I do not need/use into my kernels.

This does not mean we should be everything into the kernel we can,
so long as we can make it optional.

Stephen

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