From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: devfs
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 07:40:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021112154032.GA30343@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1037094221.16831.21.camel@bip>
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:43:41AM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
>
> I'm wondering if a totally userspace solution could replace devs ?
> Something using hotplug + sysfs and creating directories/nodes as they
> appear on the system. This way, the policy (how do I name what) could be
> moved out of the kernel.
Yes, that is _exactly_ what I am working on doing, and have stated as
such on this list a number of times in the past.
As for it being after the feature freeze comment, like Alan noted,
everything is already present to do this, it's just going to take some
more notifiers being added and some userspace code written.
And no, even if all of this gets done, I would not want to remove devfs
from the kernel, yet :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-12 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-12 9:32 devfs Ian Molton
2002-11-12 9:43 ` devfs Xavier Bestel
2002-11-12 9:49 ` devfs john slee
2002-11-12 10:01 ` devfs Sean Neakums
2002-11-12 12:51 ` devfs Oliver Neukum
2002-11-13 10:48 ` hotplug (was devfs) Nick Craig-Wood
2002-11-13 17:02 ` Greg KH
2002-11-13 18:06 ` Nick Craig-Wood
2002-11-13 18:04 ` Greg KH
2002-11-14 11:46 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-11-12 10:05 ` devfs Xavier Bestel
2002-11-12 10:04 ` devfs Alexander Viro
2002-11-12 10:25 ` devfs Ian Molton
2002-11-12 10:46 ` devfs Dave Jones
2002-11-12 11:08 ` devfs Ian Molton
2002-11-12 11:24 ` devfs Rando Christensen
2002-11-12 13:30 ` devfs Alexander Viro
2002-11-12 14:53 ` devfs Alan Cox
2002-11-12 15:37 ` devfs Ian Molton
2002-11-12 11:29 ` devfs Helge Hafting
2002-11-12 15:40 ` Greg KH [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-18 9:10 cerberus errors on 2.4.19 (ide dma related) Alexander Viro
2002-08-18 9:16 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 18:10 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 18:20 ` Sean Neakums
2002-08-18 18:29 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 18:36 ` Sean Neakums
2002-08-18 21:53 ` Barry K. Nathan
2002-08-18 22:26 ` devfs Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 22:47 ` devfs Sean Neakums
2002-08-18 23:03 ` devfs Alexander Viro
2002-08-18 23:15 ` devfs Ed Sweetman
2002-08-21 4:49 ` devfs Richard Gooch
2002-08-21 5:03 ` devfs Ed Sweetman
2002-08-19 1:06 ` devfs Olivier Galibert
2002-08-19 2:01 ` devfs Greg KH
2002-08-18 23:18 ` devfs Barry K. Nathan
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