Trying to make everybody happy with DEVFS

Manuel Estrada (ranty@atdot.org)
Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:54:10 +0200 (CEST)


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Attached come a couple of ideas which came to my mind last
night. As I don't follow lkml too closely, they may be obsolete; if
that is the case I apologize.

If I get some positive comments and manage to allocate some
time, I may try to implement something myself.

ranty

PS: please write to me directly as I am not in the list.

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Manuel Estrada

Ranty@atdot.org
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