This is a great idea. We need a good, well drawn out description of
what DEVFS is supposed to accomplish and how we'd like it to work. I
will be glad to help out, and perhaps we can get some movement on this.
Personally, I'd like to see DEVFS completely replace the current system
of nodes in /dev.
One nice feature would also be to be able to define aliases of certain
devices, such as cdrom, modem, etc... I suppose these could get handled
in rc/rc.conf. Also, I really like the idea of being able to create a
'limited' devfs mount for a chroot'd environment.
Adrian Chadd had the audacity to say:
>
> Ok, how about you, phk and julian throw up a list of what devfs should do?
> I am forming some ideas on how to solve the namespace and device cloning
> issues, we might make some forward work on this finally? :-)
>
>
> Adrian
>
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