From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Christoph Hellwig" Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:40:55 +0000 Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word Message-Id: <015601c415a4$39a85710$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 02:16:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > 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. The FreeBSD implementation is pretty similar to the devfs we have in 2.6 API- and implementation wise. Just because it works somehow in most situation doesn't mean it's right.. - 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