On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <[email protected]> wrote:

> Another idea is to implement lazy device creation in /dev/ - when
> provider is created with this don't-taste flag its corresponding /dev/
> entry is not created, because the DEV GEOM class didn't taste it.
> But DEV class could respond to devfs lookups by trying to find provider
> by name (there is function for that already) and when found, create
> /dev/ entry for it. This would make providers that don't like to be
> tasted still available through /dev/.
>

Sounds rationale to me and less expensive that a complete rule system
(even if less flexible, but for what I read this should suffice in
many cases).

Luca
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