Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 03:52:32 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: kris@obsecurity.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting rid of devfs... Message-ID: <3DCCF700.27A4514C@mindspring.com> References: <20021109043123.0555F37B401@hub.freebsd.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> Ok here are some thought about devfs
>
> 1/ devices are coming and going and becoming more portable
> 2/ disk partitioning schemes are also multiplying
> 3/ devices such as usb or bluetooth nets can be configured in arbitray ways
> 4/ there are more than 256 types of device in the world.
>
> With these in mind, devfs takes a device NAME and directly maps it to teh
> driver in a way that is not controlled by the minor number.
[ ... lots of other stuff that's obvious, if you paide attention
when Julian's first devfs implementation was submitted for
inclusion in FreeBSD ... ]
So... When are you going to delete specfs?
-- Terry
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