Re: A Modest Proposal: "hotplugd" = devfsd - devfs

Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Sat, 29 Apr 2000 12:01:09 -0600

Chip Salzenberg writes:
> It seems to me that there is exactly one feature of devfs that is
> definitively new, useful, and important: Support for hot-plug devices.
>
> But why implement a filesystem just for that?
>
> I propose that we keep /dev as a normal filesystem and create only
> the exact thing that we really need: the kernel->user protocol to
> report the appearance and disappearance of hot-plug devies.

Yeah, I've seen this proposal rear it's ugly head time and time
again. I've explained the problems with this approach in the FAQ:
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html
It's in the "Questions and Answers" section.

Regards,

Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

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