On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote:
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> > 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?
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> > [ Heh. *now* there'll be some wailing and gnashing of teeth... :-) ]
> >
> "booting"?
you can make /dev on a small mfs that is automatically mounted,
or you can rpepopulate /dev with know boot devices.
You don't need /dev to mount root anyhow.
In fact you don't need /dev to mount others either as the mount request
passes in the device name which could be looked up directly assuming that
poul's dev_t cache has the entries already. (result of make_dev()).
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