Re: [RFC] devfs API

Jon Portnoy
2002-11-12T21:53:07Z

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:49:22PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
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>
> Hi Al,
>
> It's good that you're trying to clean up the devfs code, but...
>
> How many people are actually using devfs these days? I don't like it
> myself, and I've had to add a fair amount of hair to fsck's
> mount-by-label/uuid code to deal with interesting cases such as
> kernels where devfs is configured, but not actually mounted (it
> changes what /proc/partitions exports). So I'm one of those who have
> never looked all that kindly on devfs, which shouldn't come as a
> surprise to most folks.
>
> In any case, if there aren't all that many people using devfs, I can
> think of a really easy way in which we could simplify and clean up its
> API by slimming it down by 100%......
>

Actually, a lot of people are. Gentoo, at least, uses it by default.

I think devfs is a good idea, as a user of it.