From: "Hua Zhong" <hzhong@cisco.com>
To: "'Rob Love'" <rml@ximian.com>,
"'Jari Soderholm'" <Jari.Soderholm@edu.stadia.fi>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: DEVFS is very good compared to UDEV
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:21:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <008401c3c9a3$0d11abe0$ca41cb3f@amer.cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1072216884.6987.52.camel@fur>
> On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 16:20, Jari Soderholm wrote:
>
> (please use a mailer that wraps lines, in the future)
>
> > I am quite advanced Linux user who has used DEVFS quite
> > long time, and have also been a little suprised that it
> > has been marked OBSOLETE in 2.6 kernel.
>
> devfs is marked obsolete for more reasons that just the presence of
> udev. Devfs is also buggy, poorly designed, and unmaintained.
I do not care about devfs, and I believe/trust udev is a better
approach.
But I do have sth fair to say about this "unmaintained" part.
>From my memory, at some point in time, somebody (Al Viro?) reviewed
devfs code and flamed the author in public (klml), throwing lots of bad
impolite words to him, which I think was the biggest reason that the
author stopped maintaining it. This was one of the projects that got
killed by flames, or improper handling with flames (another one that
comes to mind is CML2).
Correct (but not flame :-) me if I am wrong.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-23 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-23 21:20 Jari Soderholm
2003-12-23 21:50 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-23 22:01 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 22:21 ` Hua Zhong [this message]
2003-12-23 22:30 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 23:00 ` Hua Zhong
2003-12-23 23:03 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 23:14 ` Greg KH
2003-12-23 23:26 ` viro
2003-12-24 0:00 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-23 23:03 ` grundig
2003-12-23 23:05 ` viro
2003-12-24 2:24 ` Paul Jackson
2003-12-23 22:24 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-12-27 11:57 ` Ian Kent
2003-12-24 3:33 Albert Cahalan
2003-12-24 18:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
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