devfs sucks

[Akritides Pericles]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, George Daflidis-Kotsis wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 04:22:20PM +0300, Akritides Pericles wrote:
> 
> > To makrinari ypoti8etai kai kala oti einai pio eykolo gia scripts. Kai
> 
> 8a mporouses na mou e3hghseis th logikh pisw apo auto plz? Den blepw giati
> einai pio eukolo gia scripts.
> 

Emena den moy fainetai pio eykolo, alla
to diavasa se ayto to mail (linux-kernel):

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Sergey Kubushin wrote: 
> Just my $.25 - I liked the old devfs names (that of /dev/sda/c0b0t0u0p1) 
> much more than /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 ... 

Let me be the lone voice speaking up for keeping the longer names. ;-) Two 
reasons: 

a) parsing this programmatically becomes incredibly easy; the filesystem 
   handles the hierarchy for you, instead of having to parse the name. You 
   can easily traverse the whole tree without ever having to do messy 
   string manipulations (meaning a shell can do it without difficulty). 

b) the naming scheme is human-readable instead of symbolic, and mirrors 
   the and mirrors the kernel's (and hardware's) underlying hierarchy of 
   devices, channels, hosts, luns, partitions, etc, making it more useful 
   and instructive to the user managing it. 

And since the naming conventions are changable through devfsd, you can 
abbreviate them if you want. Heck, you could just go back to /dev/sda1 if 
you really want shorter names. :-) 

Anyways, congrats to Richard on finally getting this into the kernel 
proper. :-) Now, if we could just get ALSA in there, I'd be happy...;-) 

-- 
Edward S. Marshall <emarshal at logic.net>
http://home.xnet.com/~emarshal/
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