From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 00:42:50 +0000 Subject: Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev Message-Id: <20040108004250.GN4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> List-Id: References: <200401012333.04930.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <20040103055847.GC5306@kroah.com> <20040107185656.GB31827@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Greg KH , Andrey Borzenkov , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:31:55AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > NOTE! We do have an alternative: if we were to just make block device > nodes support "readdir" and "lookup", you could just do > > open("/dev/sda/1" ...) > > and it magically works right. I've wanted to do this for a long time, but > every time I suggest allowing it, people scream. ... and do so for a good reason. Guys, could we please put the entire thing on hold for a week or so? There's stuff around the block hotplug that would simplify a lot in that area and I'd rather see partitioning code (and bdev code in general, for that matter) not messed with until we do that right. Some of that is already in -mm, some should go in shortly and it can make a lot of kludges unnecessary. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ 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