From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Stephan Maciej <stephanm@muc.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4]
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:33:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031223203307.GD4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200312232100.04739.stephanm@muc.de>
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:00:04PM +0100, Stephan Maciej wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 December 2003 17:39, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > I disagree. For fully static devices like the mem devices the udev
> > indirection is completely superflous.
>
> It can be considered superfluous, but OTOH I think when creating a clean
> interface it's desirable to keep the number of exceptional items as small as
> possible, IOW zero.
Trying to get rid of them for the sake of getting rid of them can very well
make interface (a) not clean and (b) harder to cleanup up later.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-23 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-23 0:21 [PATCH] some sysfs patches for 2.6.0 [0/4] Greg KH
2003-12-23 0:24 ` [PATCH] fix sysfs oops [1/4] Greg KH
2003-12-23 0:26 ` [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4] Greg KH
2003-12-23 0:28 ` [PATCH] add sysfs misc device support [3/4] Greg KH
2003-12-23 0:28 ` [PATCH] add sysfs vc device support [4/4] Greg KH
2003-12-23 13:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-23 0:29 ` [PATCH] add sysfs misc device support [3/4] Greg KH
2003-12-23 13:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-23 13:15 ` [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4] Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-23 15:31 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 16:07 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 16:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-23 17:56 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 20:00 ` Stephan Maciej
2003-12-23 20:33 ` viro [this message]
2003-12-25 17:48 ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2003-12-25 18:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-25 19:41 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-25 20:57 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-25 22:02 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-26 16:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-26 16:54 ` Tomasz Torcz
2003-12-26 20:18 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-23 18:01 ` Greg KH
2003-12-23 19:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-23 19:19 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 19:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-23 19:25 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 19:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-23 19:45 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 19:24 ` viro
2003-12-23 19:28 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 11:07 ` [PATCH] some sysfs patches for 2.6.0 [0/4] Andreas Jellinghaus
2003-12-23 23:26 ` Greg KH
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