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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 03:25:56 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@rogers.com>
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Subject: Re: Crazy Idea: Replacing /dev using sysfs over time
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 07:28:18PM -0400, Shawn Starr wrote:
> I wonder if in the future, we can just eliminate /dev altogether (or map it 
> via sysfs until older apps move away from /dev). It just seems we could 
> represent major,minor in a sysfs node: 

This comes up every few months.  Please read the archives for why this
is not acceptable.

thanks,

greg k-h