Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.2 release

[Joshua Schmidlkofer <kernel@pacrimopen.com>]

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 14:47, Greg KH wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've released the 0.2 version of udev into the wild, after surviving a
> live demo at the 2003 Ottawa Linux Symposium during a presentation.  It
> can be found at:
> 	kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-0.2.tar.gz
> 
> udev is a implementation of devfs in userspace using sysfs and
> /sbin/hotplug.  It requires a 2.5/2.6 kernel to run properly.  The major
> changes since the last release is that persistent device naming schemes
> are now implemented.  Yeah, it's pretty rough, but it does prove that
> the concept is sane and will end up working well for users.
> 
> There's a BitKeeper tree of the latest stuff available at:
> 	bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/udev/
> 
> I've also placed the slides from my OLS talk up at:
> 	http://www.kroah.com/linux/talks/ols_2003_udev_talk/
> 
> The paper which attempts to explain the background of udev, what it
> does, and where it is going is at:
> 	http://archive.linuxsymposium.org/ols2003/Proceedings/All-Reprints/Reprint-Kroah-Hartman-OLS2003.pdf
> 
> 
> Due to the rush of the development of udev in this past week (hacking at
> it during the conference in an attempt to have something to show) there
> are still a number of very rough corners present, a few known memory
> leaks, and at least one hard coded path to my home directory for a
> config file...  Please feel free to take it for a spin to see how well
> things are progressing.
> 
> Patches are always welcome, and discussions of the implementation, and
> future directions that the project should entail are welcome for now on
> the linux-hotplug-devel mailing list (if it's over-run, a new list will
> be started up, but I don't think that's necessary for now.)
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

This looks cool!   I was so excited about devfs when it was written.
Since then I;ve felt a huge sense of disappointment as the
implementation never quite became something cool as it could be.  

Since this is mostly userspace it looks awesome.  I have not looked at
anything besides your slides yet.  Will this affect existing apps?  Does
udev act as a /dev replacement, or will it actually need some app-level
work?

thanks,
   joshua



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