On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 13:17 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:44:51AM +0200, Owen Taylor wrote:
(*) I know some people (yes, you, Jeremy) have serious reservations about the details of how udev is implemented. And I really just mean "dynamic creation of device nodes on a ram filesystem". But I don't think the fact that udev is too bloated/complex/policyless/whatever to run in Anaconda should keep us from trying to start fixing these problems for installed systems.
Um, I have never heard of such objections before. If _anyone_ has _any_ questions/issue/objections/rants about the implementation of udev, or any other kind of complaints about udev, please let me, and the linux-hotplug-devel mailing list know. Without us knowing, nothing will change :)
I've replied with such to _every_ request/question about udev here. I'm working on writing up something more complete to send, but 24 hour days plus a variety of Life things to deal with have kept me from having the time to actually get it done. Things should settle down for me later this week and I'll manage to get it written up. The short and simple version is that by not having any policy dictated, the system becomes overly complicated and difficult to deal with.
Jeremy