Re: udev and devfs - The final word

Greg KH
2004-01-03T22:18:20Z

On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:01:40PM +0100, Witukind wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:59:38 -0800
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:18:55AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:29:42PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 2) We are (well, were) running out of major and minor numbers for
> > > > devices.
> > >
> > > devfs tried to fix this one by _getting rid_ of those numbers.
> > > Seriously - what are they needed for?
> >
> > But devfs failed in this. The devfs kernel interface still requires a
> > major/minor number to create device nodes.
>
> Let's be more precise and not say that "devfs" failed this, but that the
> current implementation of devfs failed this.

Um, that's all we have to go by right now, sorry.

> 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.

thanks,

greg k-h