From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262000AbTDKXO3 (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:14:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262120AbTDKXO3 (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:14:29 -0400 Received: from inet-mail4.oracle.com ([148.87.2.204]:54750 "EHLO inet-mail4.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262000AbTDKXOY (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:14:24 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:25:07 -0700 From: Joel Becker To: Greg KH Cc: "Kevin P. Fleming" , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, message-bus-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release Message-ID: <20030411232507.GC4917@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> References: <20030411172011.GA1821@kroah.com> <200304111746.h3BHk9hd001736@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <20030411182313.GG25862@wind.cocodriloo.com> <3E970A00.2050204@cox.net> <20030411192827.GC31739@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <20030411195843.GO1821@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030411195843.GO1821@kroah.com> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:58:43PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > There's going to be a war over this naming, and that's why this is > > hard. > > No, there isn't. That's what I am trying to completely avoid with udev. > It will allow you to plug in whatever device naming scheme that you > want. And this is exactly what we can't have happen. If I am an administrator, I don't want to have to write all my scripts to do: if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ] then DISKPREFIX="/dev/disk" elif [ -f /etc/unitedlinux-release ] then DISKPREFIX="/dev/disc" elif [ -f /dev/volume0 ] then DISKPREFIX="/dev/volume" elif ... Please, let's not repeat GNOME/KDE, OpenLook/Motif, mkinitrd/mkinitrd, etc for all our devices. Joel -- "Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate." - Thomas Jones Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle Corporation E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127