From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262508AbTJGQyJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:54:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262522AbTJGQyJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:54:09 -0400 Received: from 81-5-136-19.dsl.eclipse.net.uk ([81.5.136.19]:29331 "EHLO vlad.carfax.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262508AbTJGQyG (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:54:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:54:04 +0100 From: Hugo Mills To: Andreas Jellinghaus Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: devfs vs. udev Message-ID: <20031007165404.GB29870@carfax.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Hugo Mills , Andreas Jellinghaus , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20031007142349.GX1223@rdlg.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3lcZGd9BuhuYXNfi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint: B997 A9F1 782D D1FD 9F87 5542 B2C2 7BC2 1C33 5860 X-GPG-Key: 1C335860 X-Parrot: It is no more. It has joined the choir invisible. X-IRC-Nicks: hugo darksatanic User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --3lcZGd9BuhuYXNfi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 06:06:53PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 14:26:07 +0000, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > I just hope udev can give a look/feel similar to devfs as I have quite a > > few machines already in production configured for devfs and really like > > the manageablility. Seconded. > I wonder: do you use the /dev/disc/* links, or the /dev/ide/... and > /dev/scsi/... constructs? I use /dev/scsi/ and /dev/ide/, because things tend to move around less than with /dev/discs/. > I'm not sure how udev will be able to support both layouts. Surely udev needs the ability to make more than one device node or symlink when a device is plugged in anyway, so I just see this as an issue of writing the appropriate default configuration files. Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 1C335860 from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- This year, I'm giving up Lent. --- --3lcZGd9BuhuYXNfi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/gu+sssJ7whwzWGARAlgBAKCO+z10XHX9VEUVJ+dKTIWJAWwSOgCdFrAP D+VTTmLHbK4Pqg7yHfBWd2U= =R6eR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3lcZGd9BuhuYXNfi--