| To: | Thomas Duffy <tduffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: raw devices |
| From: | Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:22:05 -0600 |
| Cc: | "Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher" <dent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx, Jeremy Brown <mee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| In-reply-to: | <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006151116000.30128-100000@dbear.engr.sgi.com> |
| References: | <200006151807.e5FI7wo09486@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006151116000.30128-100000@dbear.engr.sgi.com> |
| Sender: | owner-devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
Thomas Duffy writes:
> Jeremy Brown here at sgi is working on adding raw device names in devfsd
> -- basically, devfsd would create all the raw device names using the
> akward mechanism currently available and then users would not have to
> worry about this.
Why not patch the kernel driver to create sensible raw device names?
then devfsd can produce compatibility entries if required.
Regards,
Richard....
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