> > > Sorry, Alan. It WAS there. And was removed by LINUS's request. So...
> > Ok so Linus was wrong.
> Hmm.
Oh dear I forgot. For the benefit of some US citizens please insert
<humor> and </humor> tags as appropriate.
> I personally greatly appreciate having a much less cluttered /dev -and- a
> clean heirarchy of devices. The -only- reason I have devfsd running is for
> X. Everything else uses the cleanly styled approach.
It is an interesting question. Its not very unix and that breaks many things
that 'know' about Unix but it is a lot neater.
> I consider devfsd backwards compatibility, and done in userspace so it's
> very easy to change policy.
Which is exactly where it should be.
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