Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

[Kai Henningsen]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Peter Anvin)  wrote on 15.05.01 in 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Personally, I would also like to see network devices manifest in the
> filesystem namespace like everything else.

Yes.

Can we have a meta-rule?

*Every* by-name kernel interface should have a filesystem variant.

That is, if there's a kernel interface where you give the kernel a string  
to identify an in-kernel object, there should be some place in the file  
system (after mounting any prerequisites) that will respond to a path  
ending in that name.

That doesn't necessarily mean the parent will be a readable directory -  
that would, of course, be preferrable, but if enumerating all objects is a  
problem, then dropping this requirement is much preferrable to not having  
a pathname.

MfG Kai
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