From: Rob Love <rml@ximian.com>
To: hzhong@cisco.com
Cc: "'Jari Soderholm'" <Jari.Soderholm@edu.stadia.fi>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: DEVFS is very good compared to UDEV
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:30:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1072218603.6987.57.camel@fur> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008401c3c9a3$0d11abe0$ca41cb3f@amer.cisco.com>
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 17:21, Hua Zhong wrote:
> But I do have sth fair to say about this "unmaintained" part.
>
> From my memory, at some point in time, somebody (Al Viro?) reviewed
> devfs code and flamed the author in public (klml), throwing lots of bad
> impolite words to him, which I think was the biggest reason that the
> author stopped maintaining it. This was one of the projects that got
> killed by flames, or improper handling with flames (another one that
> comes to mind is CML2).
>
> Correct (but not flame :-) me if I am wrong.
Well, Al definitely shot forth many flames over devfs, for sure :)
I do not know the time line of the flames vs. any decisions made by
Richard, though. Some flamage was definitely earlier, when Richard was
active, and some flames were definitely after Richard scaled back his
kernel development. And, yes, Al flames very hard and a bit rude -- but
I have never seen him wrong, that is for sure ;-)
So I cannot comment over _why_ defvs is unmaintained, but that is not
the point: either way, it stands that devfs is unmaintained. That is a
problem in and of itself.
Rob Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-23 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-23 21:20 DEVFS is very good compared to UDEV Jari Soderholm
2003-12-23 21:50 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-23 22:01 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 22:21 ` Hua Zhong
2003-12-23 22:30 ` Rob Love [this message]
2003-12-23 23:00 ` Hua Zhong
2003-12-23 23:03 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 23:14 ` Greg KH
2003-12-23 23:26 ` viro
2003-12-24 0:00 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-23 23:03 ` grundig
2003-12-23 23:05 ` viro
2003-12-24 2:24 ` Paul Jackson
2003-12-23 22:24 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-12-27 11:57 ` Ian Kent
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-24 3:33 Albert Cahalan
2003-12-24 18:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
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