Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Nov 2002 03:04:18 -0500 | From | "Theodore Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] devfs API |
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On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:49:22PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > The only way I'll use devfs is > * on a separate testbox devoid of network interfaces > * with no users > * with no data - disk periodically populated from image on CD. > > And that's regardless of that cleanup - fixing the interface doesn't solve > the internal races, so...
Hi Al,
It's good that you're trying to clean up the devfs code, but...
How many people are actually using devfs these days? I don't like it myself, and I've had to add a fair amount of hair to fsck's mount-by-label/uuid code to deal with interesting cases such as kernels where devfs is configured, but not actually mounted (it changes what /proc/partitions exports). So I'm one of those who have never looked all that kindly on devfs, which shouldn't come as a surprise to most folks.
In any case, if there aren't all that many people using devfs, I can think of a really easy way in which we could simplify and clean up its API by slimming it down by 100%......
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