> It's generally not the Unix philosophy to do this. In general kernel
> driver routines don't dictate what the /dev name is, so that system
> administrators can choose ones other than the standard convention if
> they *really* want.
I think this is the _old_ Unix philosophy from times where all drivers
were linked into the kernel all the time. I believe that creating devices
on the fly on module load is a good thing, Solaris, AIX and DGUX do it,
for instance. I find it rather intuitive from a user interface standpoint
- what no /dev entry for your device? Get the driver for the new device
and load it.
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