Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:00:15 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>,
       Rob Love <rml@ximian.com>, rob@landley.net,
       Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:13:26AM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 12:38:54PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > Have you even _tried_ udev?
> 
> Yes, and it works reasonably well. I have version 012 here.
> Some flaws will be fixed in 013 or so.

What flaws would that be?  The short time delay for partitions?  Or
something else?

> Some difficulties are of a more fundamental type, not so easy to fix.

Such as?

> But udev is an entirely different discussion. Some other time.

Feel free to bring it up on the linux-hotplug-devel list whenever you
wish.

thanks,

greg k-h
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