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
