Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 08 Oct 1999 20:05:08 -0100 | From | David Ford <> | Subject | Re: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device a lloc ation) ) |
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Horst von Brand wrote:
> Very true. The easiest way to solve _any_ problem is to have somebody else > do the solving. > > Look, the problems with devfs are of two kinds: > - It really can't solve the problems it is supposed to solve > - The implementation might not be up to snuff
it solves my device naming and it is quite up to snuff. for the last X months, the largest changes in the devfs patch are syncing it with the current source code of the kernel.
> I really don't know about the second point, I'd assume that that is fixed > by now (it has been more than a year, isn't it?). If not, they can be > solved by the horde of devfs adicts. No need to involve the kernel hackers > in this.
it's been two years in the works. and issues are really trivial. i've used devfs in production for just shy of a year now and none of my production machines has ever suffered from an issue related to devfs. i have a singular machine that sits on the shelf that i had a problem with an IDE tape drive a long time ago and haven't had time to dust it off and solve the problem ..if the problem even exists today.
> The first one is the real stumbling block, IMO: devfs tries to solve the > (addmitedly very hard) problem of managing devices (which in turn are just > proxies for the _data_ they contain/convey, which is what you really want > to manage) by placing an automated naming system in between. This just > might be one of the minor building blocks for a solution to the real > problem (assuming the solution goes through "devices" with "names" that > look like "files").
and it's doing one heck of a great job, and as i've purported before, it is a step in the right direction. i'd rather take that step than let moss grow.
-d
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