From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263184AbTDLHmf (for ); Sat, 12 Apr 2003 03:42:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263185AbTDLHmf (for ); Sat, 12 Apr 2003 03:42:35 -0400 Received: from Mail1.KONTENT.De ([81.88.34.36]:17342 "EHLO Mail1.KONTENT.De") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263184AbTDLHme (for ); Sat, 12 Apr 2003 03:42:34 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum Reply-To: oliver@neukum.name To: "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" , "'Greg KH'" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 09:53:41 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" , "'linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net'" , "'message-bus-list@redhat.com'" , "'Daniel Stekloff'" References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304120953.41769.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Samstag, 12. April 2003 00:36 schrieb Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky: > > From: Oliver Neukum [mailto:oliver@neukum.org] > > > > > Ok, if you are worried about these kinds of things, then use the > > > in-kernel devfs. I'm not going to dispute that userspace faults can > > > happen. > > > > Yes, in my oppinion putting such things into user space is stupid. > > Your considerable talents would be better used to help Adam getting > > his simplified devfs ready. > > Fixating naming policy in the kernel goes along the lines too; > unless kdevfs gets the ability to be policy-configurable, it is no use. Why? Who cares about names? IMHO that's useless frill. If he absolutely cannot stand the kernel default, use a symlink. You do not protest against numbering policy in the kernel, why are names worse? Regards Oliver