Re: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation)

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Sat, 09 Oct 1999 22:18:46 -0400

Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> said:
> On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > Not my point, I was saying that I must now _also_ take care of not
> > hijacking a name. But you don't have to mess with names if you don't use
> > devfs. What if I decide to set up a full chinese version of Linux, with
> > chinese device names? Now I can't even begin of thinking in using the stock
> > kernel...

> Which chinese version of Linux uses chinese device names? AFAIK most
> (all?) distributions use the "standard" names, which is basically the same
> as if it had been kernel policy anyway. Change device names at your own
> peril -- many programs are hardcoded to fixed device names. (The kernel,
> and init come to mind).

None ATM. And device names hardcoded into the kernel is BAD, everyone
agrees on that.

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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
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