Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 08:21:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 08:21:33 -0400 Received: from pimout4-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.103]:25291 "EHLO pimout4-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 08:21:32 -0400 Message-Id: <200208051225.g75CP4v316564@pimout4-ext.prodigy.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Rob Landley To: Oliver Neukum , Patrick Mochel , Adam Belay Subject: Re: [PATCH] integrate driverfs and devfs (2.5.28) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 02:26:35 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200207292326.g6TNQcI19062@fachschaft.cup.uni-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <200207292326.g6TNQcI19062@fachschaft.cup.uni-muenchen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 998 Lines: 23 On Monday 29 July 2002 07:25 pm, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Dienstag, 30. Juli 2002 00:21 schrieb Patrick Mochel: > > 1) devfs imposes a default naming policy. That is bad, wrong and unjust. > > There shalt not be a default naming policy in the kernel. Period. > > Why not? Who really needs the ability to name anything in /dev ? > You can always use a symlink if you realy, realy want. Okay, I'll bite. So what's root_dev_names in init/do_mounts.c? If a default naming policy is so unacceptably evil, is that being removed in 2.5 and everybody being told to use major/minor for the root device? By the way, why doesn't imposing consistent predefined major/minor numbers (0x0301 instead of "hda1") count as "policy"? I'm honestly curious... Rob - 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/