Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-15,: Re: devfs - why not ?

# Re: devfs - why not ?

david parsons (orc@pell.portland.or.us)
Fri, 14 Apr 2000 23:02:30 -0700 (PDT)

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Alexander Viro wrote:
> On 14 Apr 2000, david parsons wrote:

> > >Inquiring minds are welcome to wait until
> > [In many words: ``no, I don't have a patch'']
>
> No. It's spelled ``list of the things that must be written before
> Richard's code will cease being a lovely way to crash the kernel''.

Yes. You don't have a patch yet. So why spend the time beating
on Richard when you have the choice of either (a) letting devfs
blow up while you work on fixing structural flaws, (b) letting
devfs blow up while you work on something else, (c) letting devfs
blow up and letting Richard hoist himself on his own petard?

You're not a BOFH, and I may not be the only one who thinks that
you're making yourself look like an idiot tilting at the thousands
of windmills that offend you.
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