From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 22:33:21 +0000 Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word Message-Id: <20040103223321.A11963@infradead.org> List-Id: References: <20031231002942.GB2875@kroah.com> <20040101011855.GA13628@hh.idb.hist.no> <20040103055938.GD5306@kroah.com> <20040103140140.3b848e9f.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> <20040103221604.GJ11061@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20040103221604.GJ11061@kroah.com>; from greg@kroah.com on Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:16:04PM -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Greg KH Cc: Witukind , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net 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.. ------------------------------------------------------- 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