Re: Linux-2.3.51, and the pre-2.4 series..

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Mar 12 2000 - 11:54:51 EST


> Why ? Why to introduce additional level of indirection and such if you can not
> introduce new policy anyway (it's defined in "Linux Allocated Devices"
> document as you said earlier :-)

The policy should be in user space but the default policy should be back
compatibility. I'd have expected devfs to do that by default unless told not
to.. as it happens devfsd does it by default if you run it.. which I guess
isnt far off

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