Fedora Core 3
Greg KH
greg at kroah.com
Fri Jul 2 19:55:16 UTC 2004
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 01:36:39PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Greg KH (greg at kroah.com) said:
> > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 01:01:46AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > >
> > > And, random other stuff, of course.
> >
> > Full udev support?
> >
> > Please? Pretty please?
> >
> > What, do you expect me to go and get the whole community to adopt a
> > common device naming standard first before you will do this?
>
> The problem is more or less this:
>
> - Without a new device naming standard that offers persistent names,
> what really does it gain you?
I know, and I agree. Well, I like my pretty, tiny /dev tree, but that's
just me :)
And I'm trying to move toward getting such a standard, but the people
who are supposed to be taking the next step, seem to have disappeared
again.
Time to go kick some DCL[1] members around again...
> I'm not averse to using it, but if you're not changing the device
> names, most of the useful functionality could be done just by
> using the dev.d callouts without actually having udev manage
> /dev.
That's a good point, and should be worthy of allowing udev to be
installed by default. That way things like HAL and gnome-vfs can still
work properly, as they chain off of those callouts.
thanks,
greg k-h
[1] Data Center Linux project from OSDL:
http://www.osdl.org/lab_activities/data_center_linux/
of which Red Hat is a member, but doesn't seem to be taking an
active interest in :(
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