Re: [linux-usb-devel] Additional USB Hotplug Information

[Tim Jansen]

On Wednesday 04 April 2001 01:37, you wrote:
> Obvious, neat, and of course like all obvious neat ideas - broken - because
> devfs is dynamic so the symlink maintenance is dynamic. That means you need
> to either solve enough races to put devfs in userspace or internationalise
> devfs in the kernel.

What I dont understand is: why is the name of a device file more important 
than, for example, its major/minor number or the name of a /proc file? It is 
just some temporary string that is used to identify an interface of a device, 
valid until the device is unplugged (or the system rebooted). In the near 
future no user will specify it anymore unless you have a REALLY complicated 
scheme to preserve device names over reboots and hotplug-actions. Otherwise 
you need something more stable than the /dev path, like device ids. 

bye...

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