From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 19:17:04 +0000 Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word Message-Id: <20031231191703.GF25389@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20031231002942.GB2875@kroah.com> <3FF21E23.3070709@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <3FF21E23.3070709@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 01:53:55AM +0100, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > [big snip] > > All the people wanting to bring up the udev vs. devfs argument go back > > and read the previous paragraph. Yes, all Gentoo users who keep filling > > up my inbox with smoking emails, I mean you. > [yet another big snip] > > Hihi, life is unfair to you. ;-) I am one of those nasty gentoo users > and still use devfs, but I want to switch asap, as I found a thread in > gentoo forums about it and furthermore tend to do experiments with my > installation. So not all gentoo users are bad users. ;-) I really > appreciate your work and hope you will find more time in developing udev > instead of wasting time (though it was quite interesting for me to read > your text) with arguing for it. So I hope when I do the transition it > goes smoothly, but even if not, I won't bash onto your head. ;-) Thanks, I have gotten a lot of response to this message from Gentoo users appologizing for the "bad seeds". By no means did I mean to disparage all Gentoo users, just the ones that keep bothering me with this pointless argument. In fact, now that I know Gentoo works without devfs, I'm considering putting it on an old laptop I have around here... thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&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