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Date:      Sat, 09 Nov 2002 10:24:04 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Andrew Lankford" <arlankfo@141.com>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: getting rid of devfs 
Message-ID:  <63214.1036833844@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Nov 2002 21:12:54 EST." <20021109021226.ORJQ1488.out012.verizon.net@verizon.net> 

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In message <20021109021226.ORJQ1488.out012.verizon.net@verizon.net>, "Andrew La
nkford" writes:
>>In message <20021108164651.6e839063.fearow@attbi.com>, Anti writes:
>>>
>>how are you supposed to get rid of devfs? 
>>
>>You're not.
>
>Just out of curiosity, what's the main motivation for doing that?

DEVFS and GEOM are quite intrusive infrastructure parts, and
maintaining the ability to run with/without is more comparable to
having two different networkstacks than to running with/without
INET for instance.

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