From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] delete devfs
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:13:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040721211301.GA15344@phunnypharm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1BnIHx-0003Py-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 03:41:45PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> >Ok, to test out the new development model, here's a nice patch that
> >simply removes the devfs code. No commercial distro supports this for
> >2.6, and both Gentoo and Debian have full udev support for 2.6, so it is
> >not needed there either. Combine this with the fact that Richard has
> >sent me a number of good udev patches to fix up some "emulate devfs with
> >udev" minor issues, I think we can successfully do this now.
>
> The new Debian installer requires devfs on several architectures, even
> for 2.6 installs. That's unlikely to get changed before release.
What's keeping those architectures from switching to udev?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-21 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-21 14:15 [PATCH] delete devfs Greg KH
2004-07-21 14:26 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-07-21 14:35 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-07-21 14:52 ` Greg KH
2004-07-21 21:19 ` Jesse Stockall
2004-07-21 21:27 ` Greg KH
2004-07-21 21:53 ` Jesse Stockall
2004-07-21 22:05 ` Greg KH
2004-07-21 22:17 ` Jesse Stockall
2004-07-21 22:47 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-07-22 6:49 ` Greg KH
2004-07-22 9:55 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-07-22 10:08 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-07-22 16:13 ` Matt Porter
2004-07-23 19:06 ` [RFC]: CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED (was: Re: [PATCH] delete devfs) R. J. Wysocki
2004-07-23 20:04 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-07-23 21:17 ` Russell King
2004-07-23 21:22 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-07-23 23:35 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-07-23 22:01 ` [RFC]: CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED Stephen Wille Padnos
2004-07-22 1:08 ` [PATCH] delete devfs Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
2004-07-22 1:48 ` Mike Snitzer
2004-07-21 22:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-07-21 22:07 ` Greg KH
2004-07-21 22:14 ` David Weinehall
2004-07-21 22:31 ` Brian Gerst
2004-07-21 23:11 ` New dev model (was [PATCH] delete devfs) Jonathan Corbet
2004-07-21 23:52 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-07-22 9:55 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-22 7:04 ` Greg KH
2004-07-22 10:19 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-22 12:55 ` Josh Boyer
2004-07-22 11:32 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-07-22 19:12 ` Greg KH
2004-07-22 19:33 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-07-22 22:28 ` Paul Jackson
2004-07-22 23:25 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-07-23 2:22 ` Tim Wright
2004-07-23 6:31 ` Ville Herva
2004-07-23 21:04 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-07-23 21:08 ` Ville Herva
2004-07-25 11:59 ` Jan Knutar
2004-07-25 18:53 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-07-23 8:16 ` szonyi calin
2004-07-23 12:21 ` Jonathan Corbet
2004-07-23 19:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-07-24 14:24 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-07-23 14:54 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-07-23 15:50 ` szonyi calin
2004-07-27 22:18 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-07-28 21:25 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-08-02 18:48 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-08-03 22:07 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-07-24 16:21 ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2004-07-27 22:12 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-07-28 7:24 ` Paul Jackson
2004-07-22 23:01 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-22 20:18 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-07-22 20:28 ` Kevin Fox
2004-07-23 20:09 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-07-22 21:01 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-07-23 0:39 ` Jason Cooper
2004-07-23 20:57 ` Timothy Miller
2004-07-25 13:30 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-07-26 1:38 ` Ben Hoskings
2004-07-26 2:12 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-07-28 6:25 ` Ben Hoskings
2004-07-28 21:23 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-08-04 21:53 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-07-28 21:22 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-07-29 12:25 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-07-22 1:33 ` [PATCH] delete devfs Mike Snitzer
2004-07-21 23:26 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-07-21 22:11 ` Francois Romieu
2004-07-21 22:40 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-07-21 23:15 ` Francois Romieu
2004-07-22 8:23 ` sam
2004-07-22 10:24 ` Gene Heskett
2004-07-22 10:58 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-22 21:06 ` sam
2004-07-23 0:21 ` Gene Heskett
2004-07-22 22:19 ` Paul Jakma
2004-07-22 19:22 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-07-22 17:56 ` Deepak Saxena
2004-07-21 14:52 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-07-21 14:41 ` Matthew Garrett
2004-07-21 18:25 ` Greg KH
2004-07-21 19:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2004-07-21 19:34 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-21 21:13 ` Ben Collins [this message]
2004-07-21 22:20 ` Wichert Akkerman
2004-07-22 19:44 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-07-21 15:49 ` Kasper Sandberg
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