Hostility in plain sight [LWN.net]

Hostility in plain sight

Posted Dec 19, 2012 5:05 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Hostility in plain sight by viro
Parent article: The eudev project launches

>1) devtmpfs problems include lousy semantics of directory removal. As I clearly said in this thread. The only "fundamental issue" here is that of crap not getting enough review.
Doesn't matter for devtmpfs' purposes. Also, udev has lousy directory removal properties too.

>2) devtmpfs problems include being extremely sloppy piece of code, both at the moment of inclusion and later, despite fixes of some of the problems
What exactly is lousy there? It's a small 450-line skeleton FS. There's nothing complicated going on there.

Can you be even less specific?

> 3) sufficiently recent udev *does* make devtmpfs mandatory. As you very well know.
Ah, I've been using udev-172 on my devices. Looks like it's time to upgrade, I'm glad they're now relying on devtmpfs.

You can easily re-add support for new node creation in udev. But why bother? What exactly are you planning to achieve that way?

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