also sprach Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.11.17.2309 +0100]: > > Wait, only since they use udev and udev pushed it. Or do you have > > evidence of a relevant distro using /dev/tape/ prior or > > independently of udev? > Not relevant. They are used now.
Fits with the larger picture and sides well with all the other
idiotic decisions that have been made by people such as the udev
maintainers in recent years. Revolution vs. evolution. Brave new
world.
> > Do the links change when you change tapes? If not, then the
> > links do not point to tapes, but to drives, and /dev/"tape"/ is
> > a misnomer.
> They point to drives, and I do not care. I am not going to make
> Debian diverge from other distributions without a very good
> reason.
There are probably less tape drives running on Debian than Gentoo
users and other idiots. It will be hard to come up with a very good
reason by sheer quantity, if those don't count:
- /dev/tape has been a symlink/device node for decades until udev
came around. In fact, I used /dev/tape long before Greg KH
conceived udev or Gentoo was born.
- /dev/tape/* is a collection of symlink to drives, not tapes.
Do I take it from your reply that you are not even willing to take
this upstream?
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