Re: what is devfs?

[Matthew Jacob]

> 
> Hmm - rip out the whole devfs infrastructure and replace it with something
> which writes tuples of (operation, devname, major, minor) to a socket
> somewhere, where "operation" is "create", "delete", "online", "offline",
> etc.  Why worry about the complexities of a vfs to handle /dev in the
> kernel when almost all of it can be done in userland?
> 
> [ Heh.  *now* there'll be some wailing and gnashing of teeth... :-) ]
> 
"booting"?




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