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Re: raw devices

To: Thomas Duffy <tduffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>
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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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