Re: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device a

Stephen Frost (sfrost@ns.snowman.net)
Fri, 8 Oct 1999 21:33:33 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 8 Oct 1999 danielt@digi.com wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
>
> Having _actually_ dealt with a non-devfs driver under devfs:
> 1. I had to make 0(zero)(NULL) changes for the driver to work
> with devfs. None. Nada. Not a line, character, or bit.
>
> 2. Once devfs was installed I was able to make significant
> behavioral changes with many fewer lines of code than
> those changes would otherwise have taken. Less debugging,
> cleaner result.
>
> 3. It wasn't until several weeks _after_ I had hacked all of
> this that I noticed that there were special functions
> available for devfs that would have let me do _more_!

Now what happens when devfs is in the kernel, and new
drivers come out that only support devfs?

Stephen

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