On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> 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.
since the rawdevices are 'new' at least they appeared only in the recent
distributions (and redhat is using another scheme as proposed by the
kernel docs), i don't think compatibility entries are required.
but this means to have thw raw-stuff registering to the devfs quite soon,
before too much apps are depending on the (kind of messed up) current
naming scheme.
++dent
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Thomas Mirlacher Student of ComputerScience, University of Salzburg
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