On Mon, May 21, 2001, Robert Siemer <Robert.Siemer@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?
Talk to Linus.
JE
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