On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:26:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:49:17PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > >
> > > I do not want to sound like it has to be ignored -
> > > but devfs code is so messy that no trivial fix exists
> > > that would not make code even more messy.
> >
> > sorry to interrupt, but wasn't there an ongoing
> > efford to replace the devfs with smalldevfs or
> > something even better? *hint*
> >
>
> Yes, but
>
> a) It didn't have a compatible solution for the legacy device
> names (/dev/hda, etc). Could have been fixed up in userspace
> but the work was not done.
I might be totally wrong, as I can only speak
for 2.4 (which has no ongoing/forgotten smalldevfs
efford ;), but devfs has definitely divided the
users into two groups (think religion/war) ...
the group using devfs, usually doesn't care about
the 'compatibility' issue, the other doesn't care
at all ... so this isn't an issue at all ...
> b) Certain parties youknowwhoyouare seem to have been stricken
> by smalldevfs amnesia.
maybe this helps youknowwhoyoumean to remember ...
> I'm hoping that smalldevfs comes back.
> The current thing is a running sore.
I'm hoping too, and I would like to see it on
2.6 as well as 2.4 ...
using 2.4 I'm currently bound to devfs, as I'm
one of the pro-devfs guys, and I think Richard
Gooch did a great work with it ... (maybe a
little too much work actually ;)
best,
Herbert
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