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(these are mainly concerned with confusion over use of "it's" and
"its", which won't be picked up by a spell checker)

1.6. /dev   ...and Linus himself and details of it's implentation can
be found at...   #Change "it's" to "its".  Change "implentation" to
"implementation".

Geoff Farrell, gfarrell(at)netspeed(dot)com(dot)au
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<para>For those of you who are wondering why Linux is using such a primitive system to reference devices it's simply because we haven't been able to devise a more sophisticated mechanism.</para>
<para>To date, the best attempt has been made by Richard Gooch of the CSIRO. It's called devfsd and has been a part of the kernel for a number of years now. It has been sanctioned by the kernel developers and Linus himself and details of it's implentation can be found at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README. Below is an excerpt from this document.</para>
<para>To date (as of kernel version 2.4), the best attempt has been made by Richard Gooch of the CSIRO. It's called devfsd and has been a part of the kernel for a number of years now. It has been sanctioned by the kernel developers and Linus himself and details of its implementation can be found at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README. Below is an excerpt from this document.</para>
<para>Devfs is an alternative to "real" character and block special devices on your root filesystem. Kernel device drivers can register devices by name rather than major and minor numbers. These devices will appear in devfs automatically, with whatever default ownership and protection the driver specified. A daemon (devfsd) can be used to override these defaults. Devfs has been in the kernel since 2.3.46.</para>