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Subject: Re: IPX now available
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
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> 
> > The gist of this is that he wants to work on putting simple linker code
> > into the kernel, and I very much agree with him.
> 
> Assuming that you and the anti-bloatists can work this out, this and
> everything following it certainly sounds reasonable to me.
> 
> 	dev_add_char			(just dev_add?)
> 	dev_remove_char			(just dev_remove?)
devfs already has dev_add() and dev_link()
these are called by the driver to make a new device in devfs 
or to make a new 'link' to an existing device in devfs.
dev_remove is there too but not really implimented..
maybe I should change the names to devfs_add et al.


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