On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > > True. It's not clear to me where the distinction is drawn. Why does FS
> > > A get into the kernel, and FS B is pushed to user-space?
> >
> > Isn't this what makes Linux good? We don't have to have absolute,
> > rock-solid, hard-and-fast rules about what goes where, or how it is
> > done.
>
> We don't really have guidelines either, or discussion papers giving at
> least halfway rational reasons. What we have now is agitation and
> flaming and a lot of hysteria.
Anyone who has watched linux-kernel for a while should have picked up a
reasonable intuition about such things. A set of written heuristics would
quickly degenerate to dogma, and prevent people from judging each case on
its own merit, IMO.
> > - though I wish devfs was all userspace :-)
>
> Impossible to get some of the neat functionality without a kernel
> interface.
True, sorry.
Matthew
- though I wish that the kernel part of devfs was limited to a notifier
API
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