Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:23:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, winter@jurai.net, chuckr@mat.net, wayne@crb-web.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is devfs? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909201723300.44736-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <199909210016.JAA35050@gizmo.internode.com.au>
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> > 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
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