Re: udev and devfs - The final word

[Paul Zimmerman]

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 00:31 Rob Landley wrote:
> What about kernel upgrades?  Future backwards compatability when
developers
> change the device enumeration methods?  (The sata driver got completely
> rewritten from scratch, and now it detects devices in a wildly different
> order, but we need this shim layer for backwards compatability with a
> guarantee we never should have made because we encouraged old scripts to
> remain broken.)  This plants hidden land mines restricting future
> development.  You're basically proposing a whole "device number
stabilization
> infrastructure" for future kernels if it's to have ANY meaning at all...

Did people really write scripts that used major:minor numbers to refer to
devices? I would have thought they would use the /dev/xxx name, and those
will
not change when "random" device numbers are implemented, will they?

- Paul

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