Re: Policy for devfs support

2005-04-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Russell Coker wrote:
 On Sunday 27 March 2005 00:26, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
  Is there a project-wide policy for support for devfs (and devfs-style,
  e.g. udev devfs.rules) device naming?
 
 The SE Linux kernel code doesn't and won't support devfs.  Devfs is on the 
 way 
 out and there is no interest in adding any support.
 
 SE Linux also has a list of device names for initially labelling a file 
 system.  Neither devfs nor devfs device names will work with SE Linux.

That's fine.  But regular packages should not limit themselves like that
IMHO.  That way, they will work under udev and static, with or without
devfs, in either standard or devfs naming modes.  SE Linux has special
needs, and that's quite easy to understand.

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Re: Policy for devfs support

2005-04-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 22 April 2005 21:28, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
  SE Linux also has a list of device names for initially labelling a file
  system.  Neither devfs nor devfs device names will work with SE Linux.

 That's fine.  But regular packages should not limit themselves like that
 IMHO.  That way, they will work under udev and static, with or without
 devfs, in either standard or devfs naming modes.  SE Linux has special
 needs, and that's quite easy to understand.

Every package has certain expectations about device node names.  Since devfs 
is now considered as a bad idea the naming scheme should be as well.

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