From: Shawn <core@enodev.com>
To: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>, Rob Love <rml@ximian.com>,
rob@landley.net, Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 17:05:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1073343916.21797.21.camel@www.enodev.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040105222559.GA3513@mark.mielke.cc>
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 16:25, Mark Mielke wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:17:57PM -0600, Shawn wrote:
> > ...
> > As an admin, would I at least theoretically have /some/ consistency if
> > merely for my own sanity when dealing with block devices by hand (I do
> > need to setup LVM stuff from time to time)??
>
> If all you care about is that /dev names remain consistent, you need
> not fear. udev and devfs are two different ways of providing this
> consistency. They abstract the device numbers from the /dev names,
> meaning that you don't have to care if the numbers change. The names
> don't.
I'm obviously confused if this is true, as then I do not know how the
great and powerful udev derives the names if not from the numbers, or
some other sysfs info.
Anyway, assuming this is true, I have much less concern.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-05 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 169+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <18Cz7-7Ep-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-12-31 3:05 ` udev and devfs - The final word Pascal Schmidt
2003-12-31 19:23 ` Greg KH
2003-12-31 20:19 ` Rob Love
2003-12-31 22:01 ` Nathan Conrad
2003-12-31 22:20 ` Rob Love
2003-12-31 21:45 ` Tommi Virtanen
2003-12-31 23:10 ` Rob Love
2003-12-31 21:52 ` Tommi Virtanen
2004-01-02 0:17 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-01-02 0:36 ` viro
2004-01-03 6:04 ` Greg KH
2003-12-31 22:55 ` viro
2003-12-31 23:05 ` Rob Love
2003-12-31 23:48 ` Andreas Dilger
2004-01-07 10:15 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-07 11:18 ` viro
2004-01-07 13:00 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-07 13:26 ` viro
2004-01-07 13:27 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-01 0:15 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-01 0:31 ` Rob Love
2004-01-01 12:34 ` Rob Landley
2004-01-01 15:22 ` Rob Love
2004-01-01 15:48 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-01 15:54 ` Rob Love
2004-01-02 20:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-03 3:00 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-03 4:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-03 13:10 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-03 22:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-03 23:08 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-04 1:16 ` Mark Mielke
2004-01-04 1:54 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-04 18:44 ` Mark Mielke
2004-01-04 2:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-04 2:49 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-04 3:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-04 4:36 ` Pentium 4 HT SMP Ananda Bhattacharya
2004-01-04 5:55 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-01-04 13:21 ` udev and devfs - The final word Andries Brouwer
2004-01-04 21:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-04 22:01 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-04 22:37 ` viro
2004-01-05 1:02 ` Mark Mielke
2004-01-05 2:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-05 2:29 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-05 3:42 ` viro
2004-01-04 22:37 ` Helge Hafting
2004-01-04 23:35 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-05 1:43 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2004-01-05 1:47 ` st_dev:st_ino (was: Re: udev and devfs - The final word) Mark Mielke
2004-01-05 2:02 ` st_dev:st_ino Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2004-01-05 3:14 ` st_dev:st_ino viro
2004-01-05 1:58 ` udev and devfs - The final word viro
2004-01-05 2:12 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2004-01-05 2:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-05 3:06 ` David Lang
2004-01-05 3:48 ` Rob Landley
2004-01-05 4:52 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-01-05 7:03 ` [offtopic] " Rob Landley
2004-01-05 12:07 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-01-05 15:13 ` Mark Mielke
2004-01-05 16:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-01-05 22:18 ` Mark Mielke
2004-01-05 3:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-05 3:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-05 3:50 ` viro
2004-01-05 4:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-05 4:38 ` viro
2004-01-05 4:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-05 6:11 ` viro
2004-01-05 7:47 ` Greg KH
2004-01-05 11:15 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-05 20:11 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-01-05 21:06 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-05 22:22 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-01-06 0:14 ` Rob Landley
2004-01-06 17:28 ` [OT] " Disconnect
2004-01-11 22:12 ` Ed L Cashin
2004-01-05 5:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-05 7:39 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 9:57 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-05 12:27 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-05 16:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-05 17:29 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-05 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-05 17:52 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-05 18:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-05 18:09 ` Hugo Mills
2004-01-05 19:10 ` Paul Rolland
2004-01-05 19:52 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-05 20:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-05 22:17 ` Shawn
2004-01-05 22:25 ` Mark Mielke
2004-01-05 23:05 ` Shawn [this message]
2004-01-05 23:23 ` Shawn
2004-01-06 0:43 ` Greg KH
2004-01-06 0:53 ` Shawn
2004-01-05 23:13 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-05 23:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-06 0:59 ` viro
2004-01-06 1:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-06 4:28 ` viro
2004-01-06 5:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-06 1:06 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-06 15:00 ` Mark Mielke
2004-01-06 0:00 ` Greg KH
2004-01-06 1:41 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-07 17:14 ` Greg KH
2004-01-06 0:31 ` Rob Landley
2004-01-06 7:14 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-06 0:36 ` Silly udev script [was Re: udev and devfs - The final word] Greg KH
2004-01-05 7:44 ` udev and devfs - The final word James H. Cloos Jr.
2004-01-05 7:45 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-05 11:01 ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-01-05 12:39 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-05 14:31 ` IRQ disabled on linux 2.6.1-rc1-mm1 Mainak Mandal _00007001_
2004-01-07 13:39 ` udev and devfs - The final word Robin Rosenberg
2004-01-07 17:16 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-05 9:06 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-05 4:15 ` Peter Chubb
2004-01-05 4:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-03 18:34 ` Wrapping jiffies [was Re: udev and devfs - The final word] Pavel Machek
2004-01-01 19:43 ` udev and devfs - The final word Kai Henningsen
2004-01-02 7:26 ` Rob Landley
2004-01-04 8:57 ` Greg KH
2004-01-04 9:43 ` Rob Landley
2004-01-02 0:17 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
[not found] ` <20040102103104.GA28168@mark.mielke.cc>
2004-01-03 6:07 ` Greg KH
2004-01-03 6:51 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-03 11:57 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-03 22:08 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 10:23 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-01 23:14 ` Rob
2004-01-02 3:53 ` Tyler Hall
2004-01-01 16:17 ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-01-01 20:03 ` Greg KH
2004-01-08 13:53 "Andrey Borzenkov"
2004-01-08 15:40 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-08 17:26 ` Diego Calleja
2004-01-08 19:25 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-08 22:40 ` Alex Goddard
2004-01-09 7:03 ` "Andrey Borzenkov"
2004-01-08 18:14 ` Alex Goddard
2004-01-08 18:35 ` Alex Goddard
2004-01-08 19:22 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-09 8:51 ` Helge Hafting
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-08 13:05 "Andrey Borzenkov"
2004-01-06 1:20 Paul Zimmerman
[not found] <fa.flhsork.uka2hg@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.hv9hpq7.1l1q9p3@ifi.uio.no>
2004-01-01 19:53 ` walt
2004-01-01 21:53 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-01-01 16:59 Shaheed
[not found] <fa.af64864.ugabhg@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.de7jae9.1jk0pjt@ifi.uio.no>
2003-12-31 22:17 ` walt
2004-01-01 2:03 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-01-01 2:05 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-31 0:29 Greg KH
2003-12-31 0:53 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2003-12-31 19:17 ` Greg KH
2004-01-02 16:45 ` Shawn
2003-12-31 12:43 ` Paulo Marques
2004-01-01 1:18 ` Helge Hafting
2004-01-03 5:59 ` Greg KH
2004-01-03 15:22 ` Helge Hafting
2004-01-03 21:18 ` viro
2004-01-03 22:11 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <20040103140140.3b848e9f.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org>
2004-01-03 22:16 ` Greg KH
2004-01-03 22:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-02 17:54 ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2004-01-02 18:19 ` Shawn
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