Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jan 1998 07:13:40 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: disk naming proposal & devfs (fwd) |
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Theodore Y. Ts'o writes: > Note: > > I've been sitting back and watchings this argument about what > the names should be in devfs with great amusement. This is one of the > other traditional reasons given for why we should stick to simple major, > minor device numbers. People can agree (or don't care about) on > major/minor device numbers. As soon as you introduce alpha-numeric > names, it becomes a completely different story. > > Arguments about naming are the mother-of-all-ratholes in computer > science, and this observation has been proven true time and time > again.....
Really? So who decides on the names in Documentation/devices.txt? Is there no argument there? Or has it come and gone for SCSI discs? I expect most people would use the standard names. Those who really hate the names would create symlinks. Devfs can work in this mode too.
Regards,
Richard....
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