From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 22:16:04 +0000 Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word Message-Id: <20040103221604.GJ11061@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20031231002942.GB2875@kroah.com> <20040101011855.GA13628@hh.idb.hist.no> <20040103055938.GD5306@kroah.com> <20040103140140.3b848e9f.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> In-Reply-To: <20040103140140.3b848e9f.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Witukind Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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