Julian Elischer scribbled this message on Sep 20:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Boris Popov wrote:
>
> > "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote:
> > Why not to create a simple 'devfs' device ? devfsd can sleep at
> > polling it and devfs device itself can provide hooks in the kernel to
> > register all important events and pass them to devfsd.
>
> what supplies the (arbitrarily assigned) major number to that device?
> (chicken-egg)
I thought the whole point of devfs is to ELIMINATE major numbers so
that they mean nothing? you wouldn't need a major number for the devfs
device becuase you have to be running devfs to use it!
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