Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Oct 2003 10:55:47 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: devfs vs. udev |
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On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:07:25PM +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote: > > I'd also like an explanation of the rationale behind the switch. > devfs works and is stable. Why replace it with an incomplete fragile > userspace solution? I recall reading something about the original > author not updating devfs recently, but I can't see why that requires > rewriting it from scratch.
There's no "rewriting from scratch" happening here. Although Christoph's devfs changes in the 2.6 kernel tree were a major improvement on the quality of the devfs interface (within the kernel code), there are still unfixable devfs bugs in the code.
thanks,
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