Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:57:43 -0500 (EST) | From | Jon Portnoy <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] devfs API |
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On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:49:22PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: [snip] > > 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%...... >
Actually, a lot of people are. Gentoo, at least, uses it by default.
I think devfs is a good idea, as a user of it.
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