> At least with a recent modern distro I can't imagine this to be an > issue. I expect we could have a kernel build option that removed the > mknod system call and a modern distro wouldn't notice.
A few things beyond named pipes will break. PCMCIA I believe still depends on ugly mknod hackery of its own. You also need it for some classes of non detectable device. Basically though you could. > For migration with direct access to real hardware devices we must treat > it as hardware hotunplug. There is nothing else we can do. That is demonstrably false for a shared bus or a network linked device. Consider a firewire camera wired to two systems at once. Consider SAN storage. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
