Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release

Greg KH
2003-04-12T04:06:26Z

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 05:19:13PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 04:37:19PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ]
> > > then
> > > DISKPREFIX="/dev/disk"
> >
> > But all the distros will do that for you :)
>
> Oh no they won't. They're just going to fix their own scripts
> to accept their own scheme. Never mind my own. I want my own scheme,
> the distro scripts break. I want a script running out of shared NFS?
> I lose.

If you want your own naming scheme, you will have to handle all of the
script changes needed, yes. devfs ran into this same problem :(

> > Then try to convince LSB to add a device naming document to their spec.
> > That's the only way this is going to happen...
>
> LSB isn't even followed now. What we need is a naming czar. As
> you point out, Good Luck.

Hm, naming czar, that has a nice ring to it... :)

> Linux devices are going to stop sucking from one perspective and
> start sucking from another. Yay.

Well, let's work on fixing the the first suckage. If that creats more
suckage, we'll tackle that issue next.

thanks,

greg k-h