Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) )

[Warner Losh]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
: A "devd" program would solve 98% of what devfs could solve.  It cannot
: solve the homebrew-a-vnode-for-the-root-fs problem.  FreeBSD needs a
: "devd" program *anyway* because what good is dynamic devices if you
: can't do something intelligent with them when they appear (mount/ifconfig
: etc etc etc).

Yes.  I'd like to see this in the future.  There is no reason to have
pccardd after the cut over to the new code.  I don't think there is a
reason to have both devd and usbd.  They all just do things when
devices come and go.

Warner


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