[cgl_discussion] Re: ANNOUNCE: User-space System Device Enumeration (uSDE)

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:40:55AM -0800, John Cherry wrote:
> As Lars stated in an earlier email, "Competition is good, but only if
> they explore distinct approaches".  It is a shame that much effort has
> been duplicated here on similar approaches.  I'm not fully aware of the
> history behind the divergence, but it makes sense to enumerate NOW what
> is lacking in udev from a uSDE perspective.

I'm not aware of why there was a divergence in the first place either :)

As udev has been public for a long time now, would someone from Monta
Vista care to detail why they found udev lacking and deserving of a
duplicate effort?

> One objective of the carrier grade initiative is to prevent duplicate
> effort.  Now that we have two implementations, let's get the
> issues/differences on the table and cooperatively move to convergence.

I'm trying :)

greg k-h