From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 04:20:27 +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 05:19:13PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > 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. If you want your own naming scheme, you will have to handle all of the script changes needed, yes. devfs ran into this same problem :( > > 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. Hm, naming czar, that has a nice ring to it... :) > Linux devices are going to stop sucking from one perspective and > start sucking from another. Yay. Well, let's work on fixing the the first suckage. If that creats more suckage, we'll tackle that issue next. thanks, 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