Re: The new broken world of 2.6, ALSA, and hotplug.

["Chad C. Walstrom" <chewie@wookimus.net>]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 12:52:32PM -0800, Scott Robinson wrote:
> Why not support devfs and traditional style naming simultaneously?

This breaks system level tools such as grub and LVM, and the current
simultaneous strategy of symlink farms does not work well.  AFAIK, it's
not a wise thing to create two character devices pointing to the same
major/minor nodes.

This has been discussed quite extensively on the list already.

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Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net>                 | a.k.a. ^chewie
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