Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: devfs and udev | Date | 8 Oct 2003 15:34:29 -0700 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0310071354580.19220@dlang.diginsite.com> By author: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > the namespace was different becouse Linus demanded that it be different, > origionally it had a mode where it would generate all the same names (and > another mode that generated sun style names) one of the requirements > before it was put in was to change it to the existing devfs-only names. > > blame devfs for a lot of things (bugs, etc) but not the names. >
Actually, this is bullshit. If you go back and look what Linus actually said, it was:
- One namespace only. If you're going to a new namespace, then that's going to be it. You're not going to put two namespaces in the kernel.
- If you're going hierarcial, do it right, not the Sun-like halfassed thing.
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