Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:42:50AM +0000, viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:31:55AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>  
> > NOTE! We do have an alternative: if we were to just make block device 
> > nodes support "readdir" and "lookup", you could just do
> > 
> > 	open("/dev/sda/1" ...)
> > 
> > and it magically works right. I've wanted to do this for a long time, but 
> > every time I suggest allowing it, people scream.
> 
> ... and do so for a good reason.
> 
> Guys, could we please put the entire thing on hold for a week or so?
> There's stuff around the block hotplug that would simplify a lot in
> that area and I'd rather see partitioning code (and bdev code in general,
> for that matter) not messed with until we do that right.

Fine with me, the current situation works just fine for my devices right
now :)

greg k-h
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