Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 18:23:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: [DEVFS] your opinions sought! Message-ID: <199504191623.SAA09011@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199504190842.DAA04273@mpp.com> from "Mike Pritchard" at Apr 19, 95 03:42:28 am
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As Mike Pritchard wrote: > > I have a question: what does the devfs file system get me, and > why would I ever want to use it? From what I've seen so far, it just > looks like a complicated way to access my /dev/* files. I'm also wondering. I've always thought of devfs as a replacement for the current strategy of allocating static entries under /dev (with the inherent problem that the currently configured drivers disagree with the /dev entries, in both ways [driver configured, but no /dev entry -> driver not accessible; /dev entry, but driver not configured -> ENXIO]). This way, each driver would be responsible to claim its /dev entries after it succesfully configured the device. Seen this way on DG/UX. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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