Fedora Core 3

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Jul 2 20:32:45 UTC 2004


Greg KH (greg at kroah.com) said: 
> > The problem is more or less this:
> > 
> > - Without a new device naming standard that offers persistent names,
> >   what really does it gain you?
> 
> I know, and I agree.  Well, I like my pretty, tiny /dev tree, but that's
> just me :)
> 
> And I'm trying to move toward getting such a standard, but the people
> who are supposed to be taking the next step, seem to have disappeared
> again.
> 
> Time to go kick some DCL[1] members around again...

Well, I'm not sure that the need for new, persistent, device names
is necessarily driven by DCL requirements (or CGL, for that matter.)

But that's a different issue. :)

Bill





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