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From: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
To: Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@rogers.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Crazy Idea: Replacing /dev using sysfs over time
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:55:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050927015503.702ca60e.diegocg@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509261928.20701.shawn.starr@rogers.com>

El Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:28:18 -0400,
Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@rogers.com> escribió:

>         /sys/class/block/
>         `-- sda
>             |-- sda1
>                     | - major
>                     | - minor
>                     | - raw

With this you're adding again all the device naming linux has got ridden of
by removing devfs (it rememebers me to solaris' devfs: They have a
sysfs-like filesystem, except that things in /dev are a symbolic link to a
device file in /devices)

> Do we really need /dev other than for historical/legacy purposes?

If your intention is just to boot kernels and not run userspace on them,
then sure, it's a good idea to get rid of /dev.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-26 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-26 23:28 Crazy Idea: Replacing /dev using sysfs over time Shawn Starr
2005-09-26 23:55 ` Diego Calleja [this message]
2005-09-27  0:02 ` Shawn Starr
2005-09-27 10:25 ` Greg KH
2005-09-27 12:52 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)

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