From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:33:07 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4] 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 Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:00:04PM +0100, Stephan Maciej wrote: > On Tuesday 23 December 2003 17:39, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I disagree. For fully static devices like the mem devices the udev > > indirection is completely superflous. > > It can be considered superfluous, but OTOH I think when creating a clean > interface it's desirable to keep the number of exceptional items as small as > possible, IOW zero. Trying to get rid of them for the sake of getting rid of them can very well make interface (a) not clean and (b) harder to cleanup up later. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&op=click _______________________________________________ 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