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    SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release
    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,

    greg k-h
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