Tigran Aivazian writes:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 16:11:21 +1100
> > From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
> >
> > I'd advocate we move from a "tough, use procfs" attitude to a "tough,
> > use devfs" attitude. If you don't want to have devfs in your kernel,
> > you wouldn't want procfs either (if being consistent). After all,
> > devfs doesn't *have* to be mounted over /dev.
> >
> > You know, it wasn't that long ago that you said that using devfs should
> > be a choice, and not something that would ever be forced. Now you're
> > saying "tough, use devfs". I guess your earlier statements were just
> > made to pursuade people to accept it into the kernel, and now you're
> > changing your mind?
>
> Theodore, with all due respect, I think you are being a bit tough on
> Richard. It is inevitable that initial acceptance of an idea
> requires some smooth talking and convincing whilst when the idea is
> accepted one could go on and gently push humans towards doing the
> right thing as a norm as opposed to as "optional". There is nothing
> wrong about that. Richard pushed me a bit towards converting
> microcode to devfs and my only resistance (as I found out) was due
> to ignorance - when that is overcome I am only grateful to him that
> he cared enough to convince me.
It's also because in private email Linus has pushed me further than I
was intending to go. He basically took off the reigns and gave me a
nudge :-)
Regards,
Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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