Re: udev and devfs - The final word

Paul Zimmerman
2004-01-06T01:20:41Z

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 00:31 Rob Landley wrote:
> What about kernel upgrades? Future backwards compatability when
developers
> change the device enumeration methods? (The sata driver got completely
> rewritten from scratch, and now it detects devices in a wildly different
> order, but we need this shim layer for backwards compatability with a
> guarantee we never should have made because we encouraged old scripts to
> remain broken.) This plants hidden land mines restricting future
> development. You're basically proposing a whole "device number
stabilization
> infrastructure" for future kernels if it's to have ANY meaning at all...

Did people really write scripts that used major:minor numbers to refer to
devices? I would have thought they would use the /dev/xxx name, and those
will
not change when "random" device numbers are implemented, will they?

- Paul