What's to become of devfs?

Posted Nov 21, 2002 6:40 UTC (Thu) by darthmdh (guest, #8032)
Parent article: What's to become of devfs?

Pretty much everyone I know, myself included, use devfs exclusively (and have for years). It is very well documented both kernel and userspace sides and very easy to configure (if your distribution doesn't do it by default).
The argument that many distributions don't enable it by default - hence it is okay to remove it from the kernel - is very short-sighted, most I know of do (particularly on boot floppies where you don't have the space to waste with a traditional /dev). In any case, whether a distribution uses it or not by default is irrelevent, I don't know anyone who ever runs a stock distribution kernel.
Should there be a better way to do dynamic device management, bring it on. devfs has been the only option for years, hence why so many people use it and love it.