From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Witukind <witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 22:33:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040103223321.A11963@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040103221604.GJ11061@kroah.com>; from greg@kroah.com on Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:16:04PM -0800
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..
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-03 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-31 0:29 udev and devfs - The final word Greg KH
2003-12-31 0:46 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2003-12-31 0:53 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2003-12-31 19:17 ` Greg KH
2004-01-02 16:45 ` Shawn
2004-01-01 1:18 ` Helge Hafting
2004-01-03 5:59 ` Greg KH
2004-01-03 15:22 ` Helge Hafting
2004-01-03 21:18 ` viro
2004-01-03 22:11 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <20040103140140.3b848e9f.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org>
2004-01-03 22:16 ` Greg KH
2004-01-03 22:33 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-03-29 15:38 ` Shawn
2004-03-29 15:39 ` Greg KH
2004-03-29 15:40 ` Helge Hafting
2004-03-29 15:40 ` viro
2004-03-29 15:40 ` Greg KH
2004-03-29 15:40 ` Greg KH
2004-03-29 15:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
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