Keep devfs!

Posted Nov 21, 2002 12:07 UTC (Thu) by job (guest, #670)
Parent article: What's to become of devfs?

Noooooo! devfs is a saviour. People that use the backwards-compatible naming are really missing the best. Two examples: 1. Better organization. /dev/sound/dsp is better than /dev/dsp. 2. The IDE and SCSI naming are named after their actual address! Just like on Solaris. This means I can put new disks in the system without renaming the existing ones. This feature is worth a lot! I've used it exclusively since it was only a little patch.