The return of devfs

Me too. Why is it considered 'policy' (bad! bad!) for the kernel to specify the name of the device file, but perfectly okay (in classical UNIX terms) to have fixed major and minor device numbers? Surely the major and minor numbers are just as much policy as the name. If users really want their own names they can easily say 'ln -s /dev/kernel_name /dev/my_weird_name', just as easily as 'mknod /dev/my_weird_name b major minor'.