Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:46:52 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) |
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Pavel Machek writes: > Hi! > > > NB: I'm not convinced that a devfs which is directly mountable on /dev makes > > sense *in the presence of hot-swappable devices*. It's a bit *too* mutable. > > "devfsd == vold done right" appears to make more sense IMHO. If there are > > no hot-swappable devices available, it is workable; but IMHO it's a bad idea > > to set things up that way because things will go wacky as soon as someone > > starts hot-swapping USB devices... it's bad to have a default setup which > > breaks in strange ways when one starts taking advantage of hot-swappable > > devices on modern computers. > > Well, hot-swap is in so early development stage in linux, now, that if > hot-swap is only reason you dislike devfs -- go for it. > > It is currently not clear how we'll identify devices on USB (their > unique serial numbers are not that unique after all). Just solve > problems we have _now_ and then start developing hot-swap support into > kernel.
Hot-swap is going to work very nicely with devfs. We can leverage the existing power of devfsd. You just use a script or a shared object that gets loaded into devfsd to make a symlink with a human-friendly name to an inscrutable name that makes sense to the driver.
Regards,
Richard....
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