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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:15:05PM -0800, Joel Becker wrote:
> 
> 	I personally think that /dev population should exist in
> userspace as well.  I *hope* you mean to populate a regular filesystem
> with device nodes that your system manages.

Yes, a ramfs partition is the original target.

thanks,

greg k-h
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