Re: USB device allocation

Marcin Dalecki (dalecki@dacotec.net)
Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:41:53 +0200


david parsons wrote:
>
> In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.05.9910081936460.32297-100000@ns.snowman.net>,
> Stephen Frost <sfrost@ns.snowman.net> wrote:
> >On 7 Oct 1999, david parsons wrote:
> >
> >> I certainly don't; /proc is fast enough even for the various
> >> 386s I run Linux on, and if I don't want to use those cycles
> >> I just won't mount /proc.
> >
> > And then discover that the latest version of ps doesn't
> >work...
>
> Has kmemps even been supported in recent years?

No it wasn't.

What about other stuff: net-utils and plenty other friends?

> If a useful thing goes into the kernel and the developers of userland
> tools abandon the old-style interfaces in favor of the new interface,
> I'm not going to blame the kernel when I take that new interface out
> and the tools go belly-up.

What about just this: Think TWICE before inventing ANY new interface?

> (And thats one of the nice things about devfs instead of some
> hypothetical ``do devfs, but break the interface so that it's not
> usable without some large expensive daemon'' alternative; it may
> be a new interface, but it's backwards-compatable with the
> previous interface so I can disable it without stomping all over
> userland.)
>
> ____
> david parsons \bi/ The only use for a "break the interface" replacement
> \/ is that it would get the devices registry into the
> kernel so a devfs patch could be done against that.
>
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