From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266736AbUGUVU0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:20:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266741AbUGUVU0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:20:26 -0400 Received: from mx1.magmacom.com ([206.191.0.217]:35754 "EHLO mx1.magmacom.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266736AbUGUVUW (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:20:22 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] delete devfs From: Jesse Stockall To: Greg KH Cc: Oliver Neukum , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20040721145208.GA13522@kroah.com> References: <20040721141524.GA12564@kroah.com> <200407211626.55670.oliver@neukum.org> <20040721145208.GA13522@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1090444782.8033.4.camel@homer.blizzard.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:19:42 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 10:52, Greg KH wrote: > > And as Lars points out, the code is unmaintained, unused, and buggy. > All good reasons to rip out it out at any moment in time. Unused? Since when does every Linux user use a vendor supplied kernel? I have no use for devfs, never used it in the past, and I'm a happy udev user now, but that doesn't change the fact that there are many devfs users out there. What does this gain us right now? Jesse -- Jesse Stockall