Re: devlinks: an alternative to devfs

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Fri, 9 Jan 1998 11:21:06 +1100


James Mastros writes:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > >
> > > Exactly, and this shouldn't be difficult.
> >
> > Already done. Piece of cake.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Richard....
>
> You have working devfs code?

Nearly. I can register and unregister, mount multiple times, make
named pipes, list the directory and make dummy c&b nodes for devfs
mounted with the explicit option. There is no hooks in the kernel yet
(i.e. modified misc_register()), so it's not actually useful yet.

Regards,

Richard....