From owner-cvs-all Sat Feb 14 15:37:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11560 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 15:37:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11551 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 15:37:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00219; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 15:20:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199802142020.PAA00219@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: devfs persistence In-Reply-To: <199802140238.VAA28185@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Feb 13, 98 09:38:56 pm" To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 15:20:59 -0500 (EST) Cc: eivind@yes.no, committers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Garrett Wollman said: > < said: > > > cases. Now, _including this requirement_, wouldn't it still feel good > > to actually get DEVFS integrated and usable as the default _now_? > > No. I see no particular need for DEVFS. While it certainly moves > some problems around, it's a substantial break with the POLA. (I > didn't always think so, but considering the vigor of this flame war, > it's clear that we are not even close to consensus.) > There are (at least) two usages of FreeBSD. One is standard U**X type things, and the other is embedded controllers. DEVFS is especially useful for embedded (not all NFS servers can provide device nodes, for example.) I don't know which is better DEVFS default or not DEVFS default. However, DEVFS is important (or at least useful) for a significant portion of the FreeBSD development and user base. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message