Re: devfs and udev

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.58.0310071354580.19220@dlang.diginsite.com>
By author:    David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> the namespace was different becouse Linus demanded that it be different,
> origionally it had a mode where it would generate all the same names (and
> another mode that generated sun style names) one of the requirements
> before it was put in was to change it to the existing devfs-only names.
> 
> blame devfs for a lot of things (bugs, etc) but not the names.
> 

Actually, this is bullshit.  If you go back and look what Linus
actually said, it was:

- One namespace only.  If you're going to a new namespace, then that's
  going to be it.  You're not going to put two namespaces in the
  kernel.

- If you're going hierarcial, do it right, not the Sun-like halfassed
  thing.

	-hpa
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