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

david parsons (orc@pell.portland.or.us)
8 Oct 1999 19:19:32 -0700


In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.05.9910081848010.32297-100000@ns.snowman.net>,
Stephen Frost <sfrost@ns.snowman.net> wrote:

>On 7 Oct 1999, I wrote:

>> devfs simply provides a way for the kernel to tell userland what
>> devices it has, using the de facto standard naming conventions
>> that everybody uses.
>
> Not everyone uses that, in fact, Solaris

Read the last sentence as ``the de facto standard naming conventions
ON LINUX that everybody uses.'' Bringing Solaris into the argument
is pretty pointless, because it already has a (really really badly
implemented) devfs.

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