Re: PROPOSAL: /proc/dev

Bill Broadhurst (bbroad@CX492564-a.dt1.sdca.home.com)
Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:09:18 -0800


On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 01:30:10PM +1100, Richard Gooch wrote:

> You may want to disable major&minor support for devfs-capable drivers
> so that you *know* that you are using devfs.
> Anyway, I've just added a new config option CONFIG_DEVFS_ONLY which is
> off by default, so you will have support for both.

Well, add one for NO_DEVFS too for those of us who don't want ANY devfs.
I don't/won't have one as I see no reason to ever do this. Just as I
have no kerneld on my systems. If I want the users to have it I'll
compile it into the kernel.

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