From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Greg KH" Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:40:45 +0000 Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word Message-Id: <013501c415a4$337baea0$d100000a@sbs2003.local> List-Id: References: <20031231002942.GB2875@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20031231002942.GB2875@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:01:40PM +0100, Witukind wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:59:38 -0800 > Greg KH wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:18:55AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:29:42PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > > 2) We are (well, were) running out of major and minor numbers for > > > > devices. > > > > > > devfs tried to fix this one by _getting rid_ of those numbers. > > > Seriously - what are they needed for? > > > > But devfs failed in this. The devfs kernel interface still requires a > > major/minor number to create device nodes. > > Let's be more precise and not say that "devfs" failed this, but that the > current implementation of devfs failed this. Um, that's all we have to go by right now, sorry. > If devfs works good on FreeBSD, it probably means that the current > devfs for Linux is badly designed, not that the idea of devfs is bad. I have no idea how FreeBSD implemented devfs. If you know how FreeBSD implemented devfs, and how it solves all of the problems that I detailed in my original posting, I would be interested. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel