From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 30 May 2002 11:14:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 May 2002 11:14:18 -0400 Received: from port-213-20-228-54.reverse.qdsl-home.de ([213.20.228.54]:13838 "EHLO drocklinux.dyndns.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Thu, 30 May 2002 11:14:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:13:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <20020530.171311.607952183.rene.rebe@gmx.net> To: dalecki@evision-ventures.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.18 IDE 73 From: Rene Rebe In-Reply-To: <3CF62F2A.6030009@evision-ventures.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.2 on XEmacs 21.4.7 (Economic Science) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi. On: Thu, 30 May 2002 15:54:50 +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote: > > You still need a way to talk all the disk devices. It might be that is > > devfs /dev/disk, but in case it hasn't permeated your skull yet, in such > > a situation then -devfs- would need such a list. We also have another > > I don't use and don't care about devfs - it's a misconception in my opinnion. > What you are potining at is just another symptom of this simple fact. > After several years of beeing "official" it didn't develer up on > promises. There are some reasons why the Linux vendors out there get > well along without it. It is simple not necessary and even worser > introduces more problems that it promised to solve. No matter how > vigorous the propnents of it where before Linus give in. It's just another > try to work around the too narrow major/minor number spaces of Linux > and well see below: DevFS is at least used by ROCK Linux and Mandrake. We never had any problem with it (and most users really like it's features). So please do not corrupt it. - I save my time not lising the feature list of devfs we use ... k33p h4ck1n6 René -- René Rebe (Registered Linux user: #248718 ) e-mail: rene.rebe@gmx.net, rene@rocklinux.org web: www.rocklinux.org, drocklinux.dyndns.org/rene/ Anyone sending unwanted advertising e-mail to this address will be charged $25 for network traffic and computing time. By extracting my address from this message or its header, you agree to these terms.