From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262747AbTLWWNJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:13:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262761AbTLWWNJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:13:09 -0500 Received: from mother.ds.pg.gda.pl ([153.19.213.213]:7050 "HELO mother.ds.pg.gda.pl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262747AbTLWWNH (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:13:07 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 23:13:03 +0100 From: Tomasz Torcz To: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: DevFS vs. udev Message-ID: <20031223221303.GA21331@irc.pl> Mail-Followup-To: Tomasz Torcz , Kernel Mailing List References: <20031223173429.GA9032@mark.mielke.cc> <20031223220209.GB15946@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031223220209.GB15946@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:02:09PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > (yeah, it's probably not _all_ gentoo people, but it sure seems like the > majority of them sure are wed to devfs for some strange reason...) Heh, I'm happily using devfs on Slackware ;-) Also, it's interesting that other OSes have devfs-like functionality, but somehow done right and not suffering from linux' devfs illness. FreeBSD5 even mount devfs by default. -- Tomasz Torcz Morality must always be based on practicality. zdzichu@irc.-nie.spam-.pl -- Baron Vladimir Harkonnen