On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:01:10 +0200, Martin Decky <[email protected]> wrote:
as I've updated my branch, I discovered someone changed the way devices
are located. I didn't like the way it was done before and now I consider
it even worse. Yes, it has clear structure, but why do I have to write
"devices/\hw\pci0\00:01.0\ata-c1\d0"? Why can't it simply be the full
path?
This is a fully qualified device name. It's not a file system path
because in HelenOS the devices have generally little to do with the file
system.
Yes, I guessed that.
How I miss "/dev/sda"...
If you miss persistent device names (which HelenOS misses, too :)), feel
free to propose an infrastructure to have them.
Note that "bd/ata1disk0" is no better in this aspect (no more
persistent) than "devices/\hw\pci0\00:01.0\ata-c1\d0". Even the
"/dev/sda" in Linux is a wildly non-persistent name. The fact that it is
a shorter string does not make it any better for persistently
representing any particular device.
No, I don't mean persistency. I really just mean user-friendliness. From
my point of view - which is "I just want to install system on this or that
device" - it is just terrible. When I use Linux I usually care only about
devices like /dev/sda or /dev/sdb. I don't need to know about every device
ever connected to the system.
M.D.
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