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Re: DMA, ide-scsi, devfs by default



Colin Walters <walters@debian.org> writes:
> > What's especially cool is that it hardwires the British (or Australian,
> > in this case, I guess) spelling of `disc' as part of the UI
> 
> The idea that devfs hardwires anything seems to be very popular.  It is
> also completely wrong.  You can use the userspace devfsd to transform
> the names however you like.

Um, it _does_ hardwire the names; the fact that you can apply additional
tools to correct them yourself doesn't change that -- you shouldn't
_have_ to do that in the normal case.

-Miles
-- 
97% of everything is grunge



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