Hello Johannes,
Monday, May 21, 2001, 8:33:28 PM, you wrote:
JE> 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?
JE> Talk to Linus.
Are there any plans to make DevFS a permanent part Linux?
Don't get me wrong, it is already a permanent part of the Kernel sources, but
it's still optional. My question is, are there any plans to make it mandatory?
Right now USBDevFS *is* mandatory if you want to use USB devices, so why
shouldn't there be any plans to make DevFS mandatory as well.
Once DevFS is mandatory, it should be no problem to unite it with the other FS
mentioned above. Further most application developer would start to develop
applications in such a way, that they don't depend on DevFSD anymore.
I personally see only advantages when the classical /dev system is finally
replaced.
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Best regards,
TGOS
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