From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joshua Schmidlkofer Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 00:18:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.2 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, 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ 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