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> No, no, no. No one seems to understand the issues at stake here.
> I have 2 modems, I plug modem A in first, it becomes (hypothetical)
> device /dev/modem1. I plug in modem B second, it becomes /dev/modem2.
>
> Now, I unplug both and plug modem B in first, it becomes modem1 now with
> the current naming system.
>
> This is completely unacceptable.
Worse yet, you plug in A, into socket 1 in wall. Plug in B, into socket 2
in wall. Now permute all variables, throw in modem C as a replacement for A
which went south. How is the poor kernel going to know which modem device
goes where?
> Does devfs solve this problem right now? No. Will it be easy to solve
> this problem with devfs when an appropriate algorithm to name PnP
> devices is created. Yes.
But that mythical algorithm is impossible (see above).
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