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From: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: devfs
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On 12 Nov 2002 14:53:38 +0000
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> >  Since it would a *feature* to move it out of kernel space.
> >  To reiterate : _FEATURE_ _FREEZE_. Nothing[1] new[2]
> >  should be going into mainline at this point.
> 
> Who cares. You can do most of it already with hotplug and the
> remaining bits are very much "oops should tell hotplug" bug fixes
> nothing more.

The more I think about this userspace devfs, the more I like it. simple,
clean, AND doesnt affect the kernel.

Pure coding beauty.
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