Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] devfs API | Date | Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:15:58 -0200 |
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On 12 November 2002 06:04, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:49:22PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > The only way I'll use devfs is > > * on a separate testbox devoid of network interfaces > > * with no users > > * with no data - disk periodically populated from image on CD. > > > > And that's regardless of that cleanup - fixing the interface > > doesn't solve the internal races, so... > > Hi Al, > > It's good that you're trying to clean up the devfs code, but... > > How many people are actually using devfs these days? I don't like it > myself, and I've had to add a fair amount of hair to fsck's > mount-by-label/uuid code to deal with interesting cases such as > kernels where devfs is configured, but not actually mounted (it > changes what /proc/partitions exports). So I'm one of those who have > never looked all that kindly on devfs, which shouldn't come as a > surprise to most folks. > > In any case, if there aren't all that many people using devfs, I can > think of a really easy way in which we could simplify and clean up > its API by slimming it down by 100%......
I do use it. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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