On Monday 21 May 2001 19:16, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > What I'd like to see: > > - An interface for registering an array of related devices (almost > always two: raw and ctl) and their legacy device numbers with a > single userspace callout that does whatever /dev/ creation needs to > be done. Thus, naming and permissions live in user space. No "device > node is also a directory" weirdness... Could you be specific about what is weird about it? > ...which is overkill in the vast majority of cases. -- Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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