From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 20 17:27: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C2BB14D0B for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:26:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA05092; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:22:06 -0700 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:23:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Mark Newton Cc: Julian Elischer , gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, winter@jurai.net, chuckr@mat.net, wayne@crb-web.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is devfs? In-Reply-To: <199909210016.JAA35050@gizmo.internode.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Hmm - rip out the whole devfs infrastructure and replace it with something > which writes tuples of (operation, devname, major, minor) to a socket > somewhere, where "operation" is "create", "delete", "online", "offline", > etc. Why worry about the complexities of a vfs to handle /dev in the > kernel when almost all of it can be done in userland? > > [ Heh. *now* there'll be some wailing and gnashing of teeth... :-) ] > "booting"? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message