Re: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation)

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Fri, 08 Oct 1999 13:41:37 -0400

David Ford <david@kalifornia.com> said:

[...]

> One must also be cognizant of the fact that by using devfs, you will
> always have the right major/minor etc even from release to release. No
> fussing about a MAKEDEV script that didn't get updated.

Exactly! It will _never_ happen that you've got devfsd-2.4.2 with your
shiny new 2.5.3 kernel, that needs devfsd-2.5.0 at least.

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