(stripped Lee from the Cc: list) Jens Axboe schrieb am 2006-01-25: > > Hm. sysfs, procfs, udev, hotplug, netlink (for IPv6) - this all looks rather > > complicated and non-portable. I understand that applications that can just > > open every device and send SCSI INQUIRY might want to do that on Linux, too. > > Certainly, I'm just suggesting a better way to do it on Linux. Great. There's a better way, but it is not necessary. Let Linux-specific applications use it for their benefit, but a portable application isn't going that way because it's too much effort. If a simpler interface that can be shared with half a dozen other system exists, the portable application will use that and ignore better interfaces. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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