On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 04:32:45PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) said:
The problem is more or less this:
- Without a new device naming standard that offers persistent names, what really does it gain you?
I know, and I agree. Well, I like my pretty, tiny /dev tree, but that's just me :)
And I'm trying to move toward getting such a standard, but the people who are supposed to be taking the next step, seem to have disappeared again.
Time to go kick some DCL[1] members around again...
Well, I'm not sure that the need for new, persistent, device names is necessarily driven by DCL requirements (or CGL, for that matter.)
It's not driven by it at all. But it did fall out of them. So osdl created the device_naming mailing list for all of us to try to figure it all out. Hopefully suse comes back with a revised proposal in a decent ammount of time.
thanks,
greg k-h