Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release

Oliver Neukum
2003-04-12T07:42:35Z

Am Samstag, 12. April 2003 00:36 schrieb Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky:
> > From: Oliver Neukum [mailto:oliver@neukum.org]
> >
> > > Ok, if you are worried about these kinds of things, then use the
> > > in-kernel devfs. I'm not going to dispute that userspace faults can
> > > happen.
> >
> > Yes, in my oppinion putting such things into user space is stupid.
> > Your considerable talents would be better used to help Adam getting
> > his simplified devfs ready.
>
> Fixating naming policy in the kernel goes along the lines too;
> unless kdevfs gets the ability to be policy-configurable, it is no use.

Why? Who cares about names? IMHO that's useless frill.
If he absolutely cannot stand the kernel default, use a symlink.
You do not protest against numbering policy in the kernel,
why are names worse?

Regards
Oliver