Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752124AbWAEJSr (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 04:18:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752123AbWAEJSq (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 04:18:46 -0500 Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.88]:57829 "EHLO smtpout.mac.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752124AbWAEJSp (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 04:18:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <43BCCE69.1020509@uplinklabs.net> References: <20060105004826.GA17328@kroah.com> <20060105020742.GA18815@suse.de> <20060105033152.GA23380@suse.de> <20060105034414.GA23660@suse.de> <43BCCE69.1020509@uplinklabs.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <6AAE697F-67B0-4976-B7D1-A87C441F4490@mac.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: devfs going away, last chance to complain (was Re: [GIT PATCH] Driver Core patches for 2.6.15) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 04:18:40 -0500 To: Steven Noonan X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1091 Lines: 31 On Jan 05, 2006, at 02:44, Steven Noonan wrote: > Pardon my ignorance, but what precisely was/is the problem with > devfs, anyway? 1) It had unfixable races (The device is created when the hardware is detected but the module isn't loaded yet so the device doesn't work?) 2) The maintainer stopped maintaining it 3) It put naming policy (and a bad one at that) in the kernel where it doesn't belong. I'm sure there are more, but those are the basic ones. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- Somone asked me why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/ philosophy/) software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Schulz had the best answer: "Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do it because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't. That's why I draw cartoons. It's my life." -- Charles Schulz - 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/