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Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 03:52:32 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: getting rid of devfs...
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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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