From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262925AbTLWWVM (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:21:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262960AbTLWWVM (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:21:12 -0500 Received: from sj-iport-2-in.cisco.com ([171.71.176.71]:42052 "EHLO sj-iport-2.cisco.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262925AbTLWWVJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:21:09 -0500 Reply-To: From: "Hua Zhong" To: "'Rob Love'" , "'Jari Soderholm'" Cc: Subject: RE: DEVFS is very good compared to UDEV Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:21:03 -0800 Organization: Cisco Systems Message-ID: <008401c3c9a3$0d11abe0$ca41cb3f@amer.cisco.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 In-Reply-To: <1072216884.6987.52.camel@fur> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4927.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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.