RE: [ANNOUNCE] udev 005 release

From: Giuliano Pochini
Date: Thu Oct 23 2003 - 03:34:48 EST



On 23-Oct-2003 Greg KH wrote:

> udev is a implementation of devfs in userspace using sysfs and
> /sbin/hotplug. It requires a 2.6 kernel to run.

Just a few dumb questions: what are those "unfixable bugs" of devfs
people was talking about ? Other that permission management, what
is the userspace stuff for ? Is it possible to make a disk appear
always with the same name, regardless the order it is detected in
the scsi chain (and possibly its scsi ID) ?

--
Giuliano.
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