From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261686AbTJWJW6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:22:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261705AbTJWJW6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:22:58 -0400 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:4264 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261686AbTJWJW5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:22:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:23:06 +0200 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Giuliano Pochini , Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 005 release Message-ID: <20031023092306.GA24499@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20031023001430.GA1837@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2003-10-23T10:33:13, Giuliano Pochini said: > Just a few dumb questions: what are those "unfixable bugs" of devfs > people was talking about ? Well, one of the bugs seems to be that people just didn't like the approach, while udev's approach is lean and mean and people do seem to approve of it. That's a matter of taste. And Greg's attitude is also more likable at parties ;-) I do believe that this is one of the main reasons, and arguing about taste is kind of pointless. Style has always been an important matter in designing maintainable systems and code, and if the gut feeling of the majority of kernel developers tells them this is the way to go, then so it will be done. *shrug* Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée -- High Availability & Clustering \ ever tried. ever failed. no matter. SUSE Labs | try again. fail again. fail better. Research & Development, SUSE LINUX AG \ -- Samuel Beckett