From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265118AbTLWMh0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 07:37:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265126AbTLWMh0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 07:37:26 -0500 Received: from sec17.secrel.com.br ([200.194.96.14]:63393 "HELO sec17.secrel.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265118AbTLWMhY (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 07:37:24 -0500 Subject: Re: DevFS vs. udev From: Marcelo Bezerra To: Xavier Bestel , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <1072181538.672.23.camel@nomade> References: <1072181538.672.23.camel@nomade> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Message-Id: <1072183068.1204.2.camel@ham> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 09:37:48 -0300 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 09:12, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Le mar 23/12/2003 à 12:51, Bradley W. Allen a écrit : > > DevFS was written by an articulate person who solved a lot of > > problems. udev sounds more like a thug who's smug about winning, > > not explaining himself, saying things like "oh, the other guy > > disappeared, so who cares, you have to use my code, too bad it sucks". > [...] > > I've spent two hours on this problem, and that's absurd; > > Man, you've convinced me ! > You've spent *two* hours on this problem ? Woah, these K-H and Viro > guys must be dorks if they don't subscribe to your theories. Who are > they to think their opinion matters more than yours, who spent *two* > hours on this problem ? > > Are you the new DevFS's maintainer ? In spite you trying to make him sound foolish, I still think he has some good points. DevFS works great and it never did something that was broken for me, so I see no point in replacing it. Maybe Greg K-H and Al Viro can step in an enlighten us once and for all.