From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261645AbTJ1TyW (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:54:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261662AbTJ1TyW (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:54:22 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:43477 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261645AbTJ1TyV (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:54:21 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:53:23 -0800 From: Greg KH To: John Cherry Cc: Mark Bellon , Pat Mochel , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, cgl_discussion@osdl.org Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: User-space System Device Enumeration (uSDE) Message-ID: <20031028195323.GA7822@kroah.com> References: <3F9DA5A6.3020008@mvista.com> <20031027233934.GA3408@kroah.com> <3F9EABC1.9070009@mvista.com> <20031028181707.GA7225@kroah.com> <1067370055.27022.29.camel@cherrytest.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1067370055.27022.29.camel@cherrytest.pdx.osdl.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:40:55AM -0800, John Cherry wrote: > As Lars stated in an earlier email, "Competition is good, but only if > they explore distinct approaches". It is a shame that much effort has > been duplicated here on similar approaches. I'm not fully aware of the > history behind the divergence, but it makes sense to enumerate NOW what > is lacking in udev from a uSDE perspective. I'm not aware of why there was a divergence in the first place either :) As udev has been public for a long time now, would someone from Monta Vista care to detail why they found udev lacking and deserving of a duplicate effort? > One objective of the carrier grade initiative is to prevent duplicate > effort. Now that we have two implementations, let's get the > issues/differences on the table and cooperatively move to convergence. I'm trying :) greg k-h