Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:01:46 +0100 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: Device enumeration (was Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)) |
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 03:45:46PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 12:00:23AM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 02:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > Because if you have to have udev push the names back into the kernel, > > > why not just ask udev in the first place what they were? > > > > Because there is no reason to think udev of 2008 will be compatible > > with today's udev given udev's history. And that's provided udev is > > still in use at that time. > > Just like gnome and kde of 2008 will not be compatible with the gnome > and kde of today.
If history is a guide, it will. KDE is harder because the C++ as implemented in gcc has changed in the meantime, so things that were correct-ish two years ago aren't anymore and the libraries aren't binary-compatible with the older gccs, but in the gtk/gnome case I have programs I wrote in 1999 that still compile and work as is. And in the X case, I have programs from before linux existed that still compile and work as is. So I'm not sure what your point is here.
> > > Again, use HAL, not udev for this stuff. FC3 is also out of date for > > > lots of things becides udev, so why refer to it? > > > > Because it proves you don't give a shit about backwards compatibility. > > *plonk*
Truth hurts?
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