Re: udev devfs
For quite some time now the standard ware of doing things is in Linux is devtmpfs + udev.
devtmpfs is a variant of tmpfs, that automatically gets de-/populated with device inodes by the kernel as they come and go. It will then call into udev to initiate run-time operations from user space in reaction to devices being added or removed. One can live entirely without udev, at the lack of persistent naming (usefull for resource limited, static stuff).
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