On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 10:54:26 +0200, Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@xxxxxxx> wrote:Well, devfs had devfsd - a userspace tool . . .
Grzegorz JaÅkiewicz wrote:
devfs was very natural, and simple solution. But to have it right, itDevfs was a ver good idea. The implementation of it
would have to be the only /dev filesystem.
But no, we like choices, so we have chaos.
Udev is just another thing adding to that chaos.
Someone was numbering things that are good in BSD design, in that
thread. One of those things was going for devfs. No cheap solutions.
One fs for /dev. And it works great.
Sorry for bit of trolling.
was a problem, and after some time nobody maintained it.
No surprise it had to go. Now udev+tmpfs can do the same
job, and more.
udef is a one big mistake, having need for userspace tool to use FS is
at least silly.
I can understeand need for some things in kernel to have userspaceI believe it had soemthing to do with the design - in order
daemon. But FS is out of question the least one.
I am supprised noone wanted to maintain devfs.
Maybe because peopleGo ahead! Perhaps you get it right. Then you'll have to
didn't want to go to devfs only. But still to have classic /dev. It's
also silly, because person writing driver needs to choose between, or
implement all. That's more than bad. Once I have loads of time, and no
work in KDE, I can take over devfs happily :-)