> 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.
>
That would be relevant if devfs _needed_ devfsd to function.
It doesn't, devfsd exists purely to provide additional
functionality that cannot easily be provided in ANY dynamicly
changing /dev directory (even one on ext2).
-- Daniel Taylor Senior Test Engineer Digi International danielt@digi.com Open systems win.
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