Re: (Semi-random) thoughts on device tree structure and devfs

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 03:33:27PM +0000, Iain Hibbert wrote:
 > > Could you show one (or more) real example(s) / senario(s)?  That would
 > > help to understand problems & clarify requirements...
 > 
 > Well, a line discipline which takes serial IO and converts it into a soft
 > device which interacts with the rest of the system.

Line disciplines are a bad example, because they're a prehistoric kind
of hacked-up bus attachment and as such ought to be rototilled out of
existence.

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David A. Holland
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