Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 May 2002 11:05:14 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56 |
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On Tue, 7 May 2002, Richard Gooch wrote: > > Actually, I've always said that I think devfs should care about both > views.
And I think you're completely wrong.
The fact is, they are two completely different and orthogonal things, and they have _nothing_ in common except for a very weak linkage of actual "physical device" (which does not always exist).
The set of people that cares about one view is almost 100% different from the set of people that care about the other view.
> Fugly. What's wrong with readlink(2) as this "magic syscall"?
Ehh - like the fact that it doesn't work on device files?
Linus
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