Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262127AbUAFQ76 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2004 11:59:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264501AbUAFQ76 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2004 11:59:58 -0500 Received: from findaloan.ca ([66.11.177.6]:19176 "EHLO mark.mielke.cc") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262127AbUAFQ7z (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2004 11:59:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:00:41 -0500 From: Mark Mielke To: Andries Brouwer Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word Message-ID: <20040106150041.GB10971@mark.mielke.cc> Mail-Followup-To: Andries Brouwer , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH References: <20040105030737.GA29964@nevyn.them.org> <20040105132756.A975@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20040105205228.A1092@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20040106001326.A1128@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20040106020648.A1153@pclin040.win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040106020648.A1153@pclin040.win.tue.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1269 Lines: 31 On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:06:48AM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:32:03PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Something reproducible is better. > > And I've told you why reproducibility is a BAD THING > > Basically, if you cannot 100% guarantee reproducibility, > > then the _appearance_ of reproducibility is literally a mistake. > OK. We now understand perfectly each others point of view. > It was a pleasure to provoke this discussion - can hardly > wait for 2.7 :-) Hehe.... s/provoke/perpetuate/g Cheers, mark -- mark@mielke.cc/markm@ncf.ca/markm@nortelnetworks.com __________________________ . . _ ._ . . .__ . . ._. .__ . . . .__ | Neighbourhood Coder |\/| |_| |_| |/ |_ |\/| | |_ | |/ |_ | | | | | | \ | \ |__ . | | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__ | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them... http://mark.mielke.cc/ - 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/