RE: DEVFS is very good compared to UDEV

[Rob Love]

On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 18:00, Hua Zhong wrote:

> Me neither :-) and when he is not flaming me (which I have not got the
> chance yet), it's fun to read. But I hate him, you know, because I now
> tend to be influenced by the way he (and several others on this list)
> writes emails, and that's not nice in a corporate environment!!

You should not hate anyone.  But especially not Al.

> It's just my impression that around that time core developers had
> decided to replace devfs with a new model. If I were in ths same shoes,
> I would probably also stop maintaining it. Then 2 years later when
> somebody asks, the reason to replace my code shouldn't be
> "unmaintained". Just the technical reasons should be enough. :-)

Sure.  But, it is unmaintained today, regardless of why, and that is a
factor in deciding how to proceed.

	Rob Love


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