On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 01:36:39PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) said:
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 01:01:46AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
And, random other stuff, of course.
Full udev support?
Please? Pretty please?
What, do you expect me to go and get the whole community to adopt a common device naming standard first before you will do this?
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...
I'm not averse to using it, but if you're not changing the device names, most of the useful functionality could be done just by using the dev.d callouts without actually having udev manage /dev.
That's a good point, and should be worthy of allowing udev to be installed by default. That way things like HAL and gnome-vfs can still work properly, as they chain off of those callouts.
thanks,
greg k-h
[1] Data Center Linux project from OSDL: http://www.osdl.org/lab_activities/data_center_linux/ of which Red Hat is a member, but doesn't seem to be taking an active interest in :(