From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261304AbTJWIdT (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2003 04:33:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262868AbTJWIdT (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2003 04:33:19 -0400 Received: from denise.shiny.it ([194.20.232.1]:1426 "EHLO denise.shiny.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261304AbTJWIdS (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2003 04:33:18 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7 on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20031023001430.GA1837@kroah.com> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:33:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Giuliano Pochini To: Greg KH Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCE] udev 005 release Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 23-Oct-2003 Greg KH wrote: > udev is a implementation of devfs in userspace using sysfs and > /sbin/hotplug. It requires a 2.6 kernel to run. Just a few dumb questions: what are those "unfixable bugs" of devfs people was talking about ? Other that permission management, what is the userspace stuff for ? Is it possible to make a disk appear always with the same name, regardless the order it is detected in the scsi chain (and possibly its scsi ID) ? -- Giuliano.