Re: udev and devfs - The final word

Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-03T22:33:29Z

On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:16:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > If devfs works good on FreeBSD, it probably means that the current
> > devfs for Linux is badly designed, not that the idea of devfs is bad.
>
> I have no idea how FreeBSD implemented devfs.
>
> If you know how FreeBSD implemented devfs, and how it solves all of the
> problems that I detailed in my original posting, I would be interested.

The FreeBSD implementation is pretty similar to the devfs we have in 2.6
API- and implementation wise. Just because it works somehow in most
situation doesn't mean it's right..