On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 06:17:07PM +0200, Owen Taylor wrote:
Clearly there has to be a policy about how devices are named;
it's
just one of the things that has to be there for a stable usable
system. Having a simple C program that can read a policy
description file and name devices would certainly be vastly more
efficient way of doing things than all the shell scripts that
udev runs.
But udev exists now, and that's a big advantage for it.
Rewriting udev in C is practical, that implies the concept is right but
the implementation can be optimised. That puts it in the same class as
openoffice, gnome and most of our config tools so I don't see it as a
barrier. What has to be right is the interface