From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 02:19:42 +0000 Subject: Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev Message-Id: List-Id: References: <200401012333.04930.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <20040103055847.GC5306@kroah.com> <20040108031357.A1396@pclin040.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040108031357.A1396@pclin040.win.tue.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andries Brouwer Cc: Greg KH , Andrey Borzenkov , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Andries Brouwer wrote: > > Now the plan (or at least my plan) has always been to remove all > partition detection from the kernel. It can all be done from user space. We had this discussion last year. It makes no sense to cripple the kernel that way. Not gonna happen. When I insert a card in my card reader, it had better "just work". WITHOUT any strange "poll another device Y to make device X" work. Linus ------------------------------------------------------- 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