Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:37:19 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release |
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 04:25:07PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:58:43PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > There's going to be a war over this naming, and that's why this is > > > hard. > > > > No, there isn't. That's what I am trying to completely avoid with udev. > > It will allow you to plug in whatever device naming scheme that you > > want. > > And this is exactly what we can't have happen. If I am an > administrator, I don't want to have to write all my scripts to do: > > if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ] > then > DISKPREFIX="/dev/disk" > elif [ -f /etc/unitedlinux-release ] > then > DISKPREFIX="/dev/disc" > elif [ -f /dev/volume0 ] > then > DISKPREFIX="/dev/volume" > elif > ...
But all the distros will do that for you :)
> Please, let's not repeat GNOME/KDE, OpenLook/Motif, > mkinitrd/mkinitrd, etc for all our devices.
Then try to convince LSB to add a device naming document to their spec. That's the only way this is going to happen...
Good luck,
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