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From: Stephan Maciej <stephanm@muc.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support  [2/4]
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On Tuesday 23 December 2003 17:39, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I disagree. For fully static devices like the mem devices the udev
> indirection is completely superflous.

It can be considered superfluous, but OTOH I think when creating a clean 
interface it's desirable to keep the number of exceptional items as small as 
possible, IOW zero.

Stephan