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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 19:58:25 +0000 (GMT)
From: Paul Jakma <paulj@alphyra.ie>
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On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Dave Jones wrote:

> For one, driverfs can be made mandatory. Sure we could do the same for
> devfs, but there are probably an army of people who don't want
> a mandatory devfs.

but devfs internally is a driver API for registering stuff. it can be
made mandatory without requiring the user-side interface, ie /dev dir,
to be mandatory.

(indeed, i dont mount devfs on /dev).

obviously devfs must also be made to pass Al's goodness-o-meter.  :)

in terms of the kernel interface it'd be daft to have multiple device
registration interfaces.

--paulj

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