DevFS

Alex Hornung

DevFS is now integral part of DragonFly BSD. I still have some rather random ideas floating around on what to possibly add to it (see below).
If you are interested in working with this devfs implementation in whatever way (adding features, porting, ...) feel free to contact me.

For some more details, check out http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/developer/devfs

Random ideas

• Add some in-kernel API for drivers to be able to associate some kind of information (serial no, pci id, ...) to a device node
• Provide a refined interface to userland providing:
  • hotplug event notifications
  • information about the device (pci id, serial no, ...)
  • ability to changes names completely, not just provide aliases