Re: uml-patch-2.5.49-1
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Tue, 26 Nov 2002 20:30:48 -0800
Jeff Dike wrote:
> hpa@zytor.com said:
>
>>Access control, ability to work in a chroot, ...
>
>
> Point.
>
>
>>For major/minor, this is presumably a misc device (major 10) or, if
>>you don't need module support, a kernel core device (major 1), and
>>write to device@lanana.org to have a minor number assigned.
>
>
> If you think that this would be better as a misc device than a proc entry,
> then I can certainly go along with that.
>
Absolutely. I think /proc is heavily overused as a really bad devfs.
-hpa
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