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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 00:09:42 -0700
From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>,
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Subject: Re: what is devfs?
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Julian Elischer scribbled this message on Sep 20:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Boris Popov wrote:
> 
> > "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote:
> > 	Why not to create a simple 'devfs' device ? devfsd can sleep at 
> > polling it and devfs device itself can provide hooks in the kernel to
> > register all important events and pass them to devfsd.
> 
> what supplies the (arbitrarily assigned) major number to that device?
> (chicken-egg)

I thought the whole point of devfs is to ELIMINATE major numbers so
that they mean nothing?  you wouldn't need a major number for the devfs
device becuase you have to be running devfs to use it!

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