Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:19:16 +0200 (METDST) | From | German Jose Gomez Garcia <> | Subject | UUIDs and devfs. |
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Uhmm, I've reading the posts to the list about devfs naming scheme, consistency, compatibility, etc, and well, I've running and all devfs box with no compatibility entries (that is with no symlinks) for half a year and I think it is much more consistent that it was before, when I load a module or I install new hardware the devices appears automatically, no need for mknod or ln, and now when I do an ls -l /dev I can see what I actually have, not what somebody think I could have someday; /dev entries are directly related to the kernel, the device numbers are really magic numbers and I think it would be good if kernel could do the job for you. I must say that I have to patch every program that access the /dev directory, but that is because of me wanting no symlinks, if we provide programmers with an standard it should be very easy to update your programs, I know people may think that Richard hasn't asked anybody about the naming scheme, but it looks logical to me, and I'm sure that if he had asked here about what it should be we would still be arguing about it. Anyway devfs IS an option just like SMP or Ethernet cards, if you don't want it you just don't enable it, I really hope Linus will include it in the 2.3.x series.
- german
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