From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262694AbTLWXDl (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:03:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262772AbTLWXDl (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:03:41 -0500 Received: from smtp.terra.es ([213.4.129.129]:10428 "EHLO tsmtp1.mail.isp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262694AbTLWXDh convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:03:37 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 00:03:41 +0100 From: "grundig@teleline.es" To: Cc: rml@ximian.com, Jari.Soderholm@edu.stadia.fi, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: DEVFS is very good compared to UDEV Message-Id: <20031224000341.5ccaa46d.grundig@teleline.es> In-Reply-To: <008401c3c9a3$0d11abe0$ca41cb3f@amer.cisco.com> References: <1072216884.6987.52.camel@fur> <008401c3c9a3$0d11abe0$ca41cb3f@amer.cisco.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org El Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:21:03 -0800 "Hua Zhong" escribió: > 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). I think the problem with CML2 was the author not willing to submit CML2 in small patches adressing single problems instead of One Big Patch.