From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 23:37:19 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 04:25:07PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:58:43PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > There's going to be a war over this naming, and that's why this is > > > hard. > > > > No, there isn't. That's what I am trying to completely avoid with udev. > > It will allow you to plug in whatever device naming scheme that you > > want. > > And this is exactly what we can't have happen. If I am an > administrator, I don't want to have to write all my scripts to do: > > if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ] > then > DISKPREFIX="/dev/disk" > elif [ -f /etc/unitedlinux-release ] > then > DISKPREFIX="/dev/disc" > elif [ -f /dev/volume0 ] > then > DISKPREFIX="/dev/volume" > elif > ... But all the distros will do that for you :) > Please, let's not repeat GNOME/KDE, OpenLook/Motif, > mkinitrd/mkinitrd, etc for all our devices. Then try to convince LSB to add a device naming document to their spec. That's the only way this is going to happen... Good luck, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com _______________________________________________ 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