From: Johannes Erdfelt <jerdfelt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> On Tue, May 15, 2001, W. Michael Petullo <mike@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is there any plans to unify devfs and the usbdevfs? Devfs and devfsd
> > seem to be positioned well to handle dynamic buses like USB. However,
> > generic Linux 2.4 user-land USB access is currently performed using
> > usbdevfs, (like devfs), usb_permd (like devfsd), and libusb.
> >
> > I've seen a lot of discussion about hot-swap devices and Linux lately,
> > though none from the devfs camp. What plans exist for supporting things
> > like USB with devfs?
>
> I wrote a patch to do just this, but it was rejected since we cannot depend
> on people using devfs.
Why not?
> As a result, we had to reimplement much of it's functionality ourselves.
Bye,
Robert
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