From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>,
linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 00:42:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040108004250.GN4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401071123490.12602@home.osdl.org>
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:31:55AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> NOTE! We do have an alternative: if we were to just make block device
> nodes support "readdir" and "lookup", you could just do
>
> open("/dev/sda/1" ...)
>
> and it magically works right. I've wanted to do this for a long time, but
> every time I suggest allowing it, people scream.
... and do so for a good reason.
Guys, could we please put the entire thing on hold for a week or so?
There's stuff around the block hotplug that would simplify a lot in
that area and I'd rather see partitioning code (and bdev code in general,
for that matter) not messed with until we do that right.
Some of that is already in -mm, some should go in shortly and it can
make a lot of kludges unnecessary.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-08 0:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-01 20:33 removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-03 5:58 ` Greg KH
2004-01-03 8:51 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-03 12:37 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-03 12:42 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-03 16:05 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-03 17:54 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 9:43 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-07 9:50 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 9:56 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-07 9:59 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 10:25 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-07 10:31 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 10:47 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-07 10:54 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 17:56 ` Greg KH
2004-01-30 12:59 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-07 11:00 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-07 11:05 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 11:14 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-07 11:16 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-03 20:51 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 18:57 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 19:23 ` Mika Penttilä
2004-01-07 19:24 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 19:31 ` Mika Penttilä
2004-01-08 1:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 19:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 19:50 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 20:25 ` Richard Troth
2004-01-07 20:38 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-07 23:34 ` Greg KH
2004-01-08 0:32 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-01-08 0:41 ` Greg KH
2004-01-08 1:07 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-01-08 1:15 ` Greg KH
2004-01-08 1:50 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-01-08 18:34 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-01-08 1:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 14:06 ` "Andrey Borzenkov"
2004-01-08 0:42 ` viro [this message]
2004-01-08 1:16 ` Greg KH
2004-01-09 3:36 ` Joel Becker
2004-01-09 9:49 ` Gerd Knorr
2004-01-12 17:16 ` Joel Becker
2004-01-12 23:08 ` J.A. Magallon
2004-01-07 20:52 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-08 2:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 4:16 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-08 4:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 7:45 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-08 2:13 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-08 2:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 2:49 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-08 2:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 3:35 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-08 3:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 8:00 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-01-09 0:28 ` Robert Love
2004-01-09 0:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-09 1:16 ` Matt Mackall
2004-01-08 10:32 ` Éric Brunet
2004-01-08 5:19 Iqbal
2004-01-12 9:09 Ling, Xiaofeng
2004-01-12 13:02 Nicolas Mailhot
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