Linux is not about choice [was Re: Fedora too cutting edge?]

[David Zeuthen]

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 14:51 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > There's nothing experimental about the path modern Linux is going in
> > > wrt. to device naming. If you had bothered you will fine that more and
> > > more device classes, including the infamous video4linux camp, is moving
> > > to persistent device names. 
> > 
> > If I had bothered to what?  Is this documented somewhere?  Is it 
> > version-specific to fedora?
> 
> That's like asking if all the sysfs are documented somewhere and the
> answer to questions like that are normally "no, it's self-evident" (and
> I agree it's not always the case) or "look at the source". Anyway, by
> all means, send patches to the udev list with docs if you think it's
> required.

I wasn't really clear here; I meant if you had followed udev and kernel
lists you would see a trend that more and more devices will start using
udev rules to provide persistent device names. Hope this clarifies.

      David