Re: devfs vs. udev

[viro]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:53:10AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
 
> A few things happened:
> 	- the devfs maintainer/author disappeared and stoped maintaining
> 	  the code.
> 	- devfs was found to have unfixable bugs
> 	- it was determined that the same thing could be done in
> 	  userspace (like udev.)

It went more like
	
	- it was determined that the same thing could be done in
	  userspace
	- devfs had been shoved into the tree in hope that its quality will
	  catch up
	- devfs was found to have fixable and unfixable bugs
	- the former had stayed around for many months with maintainer claiming
	  that everything works fine
	- the latter had stayed, period.
	- the devfs maintainer/author disappeared and stoped maintaining
	  the code.
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