On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> why use devfs

Because then you don't have to worry about major number skew. Since the
kernel is the only thing that really cares about majors _and_ it is the
thing that shoves the majors into the nodes in devfs, there will never be
any skew.

Also, when a device is located, the right node(s) show up on the devfs.

Take care,

Bill