Julian Elischer wrote: > > Ok here are some thought about devfs > > 1/ devices are coming and going and becoming more portable > 2/ disk partitioning schemes are also multiplying > 3/ devices such as usb or bluetooth nets can be configured in arbitray ways > 4/ there are more than 256 types of device in the world. > > With these in mind, devfs takes a device NAME and directly maps it to teh > driver in a way that is not controlled by the minor number.
[ ... lots of other stuff that's obvious, if you paide attention when Julian's first devfs implementation was submitted for inclusion in FreeBSD ... ] So... When are you going to delete specfs? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message