From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 00:19:13 +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 04:37:19PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ] > > then > > DISKPREFIX="/dev/disk" > > But all the distros will do that for you :) Oh no they won't. They're just going to fix their own scripts to accept their own scheme. Never mind my own. I want my own scheme, the distro scripts break. I want a script running out of shared NFS? I lose. > Then try to convince LSB to add a device naming document to their spec. > That's the only way this is going to happen... LSB isn't even followed now. What we need is a naming czar. As you point out, Good Luck. Linux devices are going to stop sucking from one perspective and start sucking from another. Yay. Joel -- "Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee." - F. Lee Bailey Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle Corporation E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 ------------------------------------------------------- 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