The way Linux did DEVFS was so utter moronic that it's no surprise it was strangled in the crib.

Unfortunately people seem to have confused "this DEVFS implementation" with "The idea of DEVFS" and thrown the baby out with the bathwater.

For comparison FreeBSD has had DEVFS for 14 years and had a prototype for a good number of years before that.

And yes, I wrote that DEVFS for FreeBSD :-)