From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262569AbTDKX0H (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:26:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262577AbTDKX0G (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:26:06 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.101]:46030 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262569AbTDKXZi (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:25:38 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:37:19 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Joel Becker 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: <20030411233719.GD4539@kroah.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> <20030411232507.GC4917@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030411232507.GC4917@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 04:25:07PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > 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 > ... But all the distros will do that for you :) > Please, let's not repeat GNOME/KDE, OpenLook/Motif, > mkinitrd/mkinitrd, etc for all our devices. Then try to convince LSB to add a device naming document to their spec. That's the only way this is going to happen... Good luck, greg k-h