<nice commentary on why Keith isn't using devfs and isn't going to for a
while snipped>
Ok, All of this devfs commentary has finally driven me to comment on
this.
Why not just run devfs AND old style /dev at the same time? That's what
I'm doing, and have been doing for over a month. devfs is mounted at
/devfs and /dev is the normal stuff.
This way I get the benefits of /devfs when I want it (basically only for
testing out usb devfs support lately) and I don't have to modify any of
my system scripts. I've modified all of my usb-serial scripts to use
/devfs and will slowly be moving other system scripts to devfs also.
And for those who don't want to do that, there is the devfsd daemon that
models the "old" /dev nodes on top of devfs.
Relatively painless way of using devfs and getting the benefits of it,
while not worrying about the rest of your system.
And if the usb userspace stuff relies on devfs, fine, it will run on my
boxes then.
I don't want to get into why some people don't want to use devfs, or the
side effects of it, just wanted to say how I am handling the system on
my networks.
Just my two cents,
greg k-h
greg@(kroah|wirex).com
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