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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, adam@yggdrasil.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev	tmpfs
Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 12:59:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49FC7BF5.8080502@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090502071636.GA9487@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:23:42PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
>> Subject: driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev tmpfs
> 
> Umm, guys this needs much broader discussion than just sneaking in
> a patch under the covers.
> 
> It basically does re-introduce devfs under a different name, and from
> looking at the implementation it might not be quite as bad a Gooch's
> original, but it's certainly worse than Adam Richters rewrite the we
> never ended up merging.

I was interested in this Richter devfs rewrite, since I was unfamiliar 
with it.

For the benefit of the thread, here is a URL that people can examine:

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=104138806530375&w=2

Regards,

	Jeff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-02 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-30 13:23 [PATCH] driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev tmpfs Kay Sievers
2009-05-01  5:29 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-01  6:17   ` Greg KH
2009-05-01  6:43     ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-01  6:55       ` Greg KH
2009-05-01  7:03         ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-01 10:52           ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 11:38             ` Michael Tokarev
2009-05-01 11:44               ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 11:03         ` Alan Cox
2009-05-01 11:11           ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 13:18             ` Alan Cox
2009-05-01 13:24               ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-02  7:19                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-02 13:46                   ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-02 15:18                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2009-05-02 15:35                       ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-02 18:20                 ` Michael Riepe
2009-05-02 19:55                   ` Alan Jenkins
2009-05-02 21:47                     ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-04 16:20                       ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2009-05-04 16:53                         ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-04 17:54                           ` Michael Riepe
2009-05-04 18:13                             ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-04 18:55                               ` Michael Riepe
2009-05-04 19:13                                 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-04 19:30                                 ` Greg KH
2009-05-02  1:24         ` Brian Swetland
2009-05-02  1:48           ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-02  2:02             ` Brian Swetland
2009-05-02  2:28               ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-02  4:42                 ` Brian Swetland
2009-05-02 13:30                   ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 11:01     ` Alan Cox
2009-05-01 11:02       ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 11:16   ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 19:26     ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-01 21:59       ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 22:21         ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-01  6:57 ` Chris Wedgwood
2009-05-01 14:01   ` Greg KH
2009-05-01 15:43     ` Alan Jenkins
2009-05-01 16:04       ` Greg KH
2009-05-01 21:13         ` Alan Jenkins
2009-05-01 15:53     ` Chris Wedgwood
2009-05-01 16:09       ` Greg KH
2009-05-01 16:17         ` Chris Wedgwood
2009-05-01 10:19 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-05-01 11:13   ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 12:38     ` Alan Jenkins
2009-05-01 13:12       ` Alan Cox
2009-05-02 15:03         ` Kyle Moffett
2009-05-01 14:55       ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 11:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-01 11:59   ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-02  7:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-02 11:34   ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-02 20:22     ` Alan Jenkins
2009-05-02 21:39       ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-02 22:04         ` Alan Jenkins
2009-05-03  7:29           ` Michael Tokarev
2009-05-02 21:41       ` Alan Jenkins
2009-05-02 21:54         ` Greg KH
2009-05-02 21:59         ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-02 16:59   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2009-05-02 17:57     ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-06 12:56 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-07  1:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-07  2:08   ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-07  2:25     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-07  2:40       ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-14  9:28     ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-07  8:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-07  9:28   ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-07 14:43     ` Theodore Tso
2009-05-07 15:13       ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-10  0:29     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-10  0:56       ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-10  2:11         ` Eric W. Biederman

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