RE: [linux-usb] Re: USB device allocation

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Fri, 8 Oct 1999 13:26:10 -0700 (PDT)

On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> The same is true for 'special files'. These require a lookup first
> to associate a major/minor number (instead of an inode). Then the
> human readable name string is never accessed again. To do it any other
> way would be to return to the days before even CP/M.

With devfs this would still be the case, but the maj/min would be hidden
from the end user, and would become largely irrelevant. The reference
would be totally internal (as it is with procfs), instead of dependent on
ext2.

-Dan

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