Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Jan 2004 22:33:21 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: udev and devfs - The final word |
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On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:16:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > If devfs works good on FreeBSD, it probably means that the current > > devfs for Linux is badly designed, not that the idea of devfs is bad. > > I have no idea how FreeBSD implemented devfs. > > If you know how FreeBSD implemented devfs, and how it solves all of the > problems that I detailed in my original posting, I would be interested.
The FreeBSD implementation is pretty similar to the devfs we have in 2.6 API- and implementation wise. Just because it works somehow in most situation doesn't mean it's right..
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