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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)
From:       Richard Gooch <rgooch () atnf ! csiro ! au>
Date:       1998-08-17 3:56:26
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Theodore Y. Ts'o writes:
>    Date: 	Sun, 16 Aug 1998 21:32:03 +0200
>    From: Inaky Perez Gonzalez <inaky@peloncho.fis.ucm.es>
> 
>        I'm considering that, but it looks like you'll have to have all
>    your device nodes statically made [like nowadays] and don't play _at
>    all_ with the plug order into the hub port's once you've got your
>    system set up; in other words: crappy, it breaks USB's spirit.
> 
> Nope; that's not the only way to do it.  Instead, you could have a
> user-mode daemon (just like PCMCIA does) which dynamically creates the
> /dev files when each USB device is plugged in.
> 
> I've suggested doing this for all devices nodes as an alternative to
> devfs, but the devfs folks seem to have ignored this proposal.

Ted, please don't say this: it's not true. I have discussed such
alternatives, and I've even coded up a daemon (devfsd) that could be
used in that way. Furthermore, just because I don't think your
alternative is the best approach (or as good as the devfs approach),
doesn't mean I've ignored it. I just don't agree.

				Regards,

					Richard....

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