> Er, how does devfs do anything different with "swappable" CDs? The
> CD player's device does not change with the insertion or removal of
> CDs.
I'm not talking about changing disks, I'm talking about swapping out
CD drives. I find it extremely useful to be able to add a CD or tape
drive at run
devfs isn't a mindless new feature. It's preparation for the big changes
planned for kernel 3.0, iirc. (I havent payed attention to kernel dev
for a while, so I can't elaborate.)
Aside from that, an immutable naming scheme for discs is quite attrac-
tive, if you ever add hardware. It's _useful_
Michael Shuey wrote:
>
> > > > But how long will that last. What I want to know is, what question
> > > > was devfs an answer to? There must have been one, right? Is it a
> >
> > > devfs is a solution in search of a problem.
> >
> > that's what I thought.
>
> devfs is _great_. Solaris has had
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