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> >It could be created at device detection time -- that is right after
> >the device is connected.
> Yes, in an environment where you either (a) speculatively
> load every possible driver to see what hardware is on the
> system, (b) don't use modules, or (c) put autoprobing for
> everything under the sun into the kernel.
>
> If the solution de jour to get rid of that icky devfs is
> one of these, I'll say that the cure is much much worse
> than the disease.
Pray tell how devfs goes _without_ any of these icky alternatives. We will
be forever grateful using this device detection magic.
-- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viņa del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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