From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Patch series to remove devfs [00/22]
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 16:41:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050611154107.GA32149@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050611153656.GB3770@stusta.de>
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 05:36:56PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Yes, there are many places where 2.4 and 2.6 are not source compatible
> for good reasons. But if the effort for maintaining compatibility
> between 2.4 and 2.6 in one area is as easy as keeping a header file with
> some dummy funtions it's worth considering.
The devfs calls for 2.4 and 2.6 are totally incompatible. And there's
a trivial way to support both 2.4 and 2.6 in this area: don't support
devfs at all, it always was marked either experimental or deprecated
anyway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-11 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-11 7:43 [RFC] Patch series to remove devfs [00/22] Greg KH
2005-06-11 10:21 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-06-11 14:39 ` Greg KH
2005-06-11 15:36 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-06-11 15:41 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-06-11 15:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-06-11 15:44 ` Kay Sievers
2005-06-11 20:14 ` [2.6 patch] fix compile errors and warning after devfs removal patches Adrian Bunk
2005-06-16 21:34 ` Greg KH
2005-06-12 22:44 ` [RFC] Patch series to remove devfs [00/22] J.A. Magallon
2005-06-13 17:43 ` Greg KH
2005-06-13 19:51 ` J.A. Magallon
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