Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev

Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08T02:19:51Z

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Andries Brouwer wrote:
>
> Now the plan (or at least my plan) has always been to remove all
> partition detection from the kernel. It can all be done from user space.

We had this discussion last year. It makes no sense to cripple the kernel
that way. Not gonna happen.

When I insert a card in my card reader, it had better "just work". WITHOUT
any strange "poll another device Y to make device X" work.

Linus