From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264334AbUACWd3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 17:33:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264337AbUACWd3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 17:33:29 -0500 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:9225 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264334AbUACWdZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 17:33:25 -0500 Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 22:33:21 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Greg KH Cc: Witukind , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word Message-ID: <20040103223321.A11963@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Greg KH , Witukind , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net References: <20031231002942.GB2875@kroah.com> <20040101011855.GA13628@hh.idb.hist.no> <20040103055938.GD5306@kroah.com> <20040103140140.3b848e9f.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> <20040103221604.GJ11061@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20040103221604.GJ11061@kroah.com>; from greg@kroah.com on Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:16:04PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:16:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > If devfs works good on FreeBSD, it probably means that the current > > devfs for Linux is badly designed, not that the idea of devfs is bad. > > I have no idea how FreeBSD implemented devfs. > > If you know how FreeBSD implemented devfs, and how it solves all of the > problems that I detailed in my original posting, I would be interested. The FreeBSD implementation is pretty similar to the devfs we have in 2.6 API- and implementation wise. Just because it works somehow in most situation doesn't mean it's right..