Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263513AbUAHCTv (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:19:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263522AbUAHCTv (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:19:51 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:17824 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263513AbUAHCTu (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:19:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 18:19:42 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andries Brouwer cc: Greg KH , Andrey Borzenkov , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev In-Reply-To: <20040108031357.A1396@pclin040.win.tue.nl> Message-ID: References: <200401012333.04930.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <20040103055847.GC5306@kroah.com> <20040108031357.A1396@pclin040.win.tue.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 681 Lines: 18 On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Andries Brouwer wrote: > > Now the plan (or at least my plan) has always been to remove all > partition detection from the kernel. It can all be done from user space. We had this discussion last year. It makes no sense to cripple the kernel that way. Not gonna happen. When I insert a card in my card reader, it had better "just work". WITHOUT any strange "poll another device Y to make device X" work. Linus - 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/