From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266349AbUGUOmA (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:42:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266500AbUGUOl7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:41:59 -0400 Received: from chiark.greenend.org.uk ([193.201.200.170]:35479 "EHLO chiark.greenend.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266349AbUGUOlp (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:41:45 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] delete devfs In-Reply-To: <20040721141524.GA12564@kroah.com> References: <20040721141524.GA12564@kroah.com> Message-Id: From: Matthew Garrett Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:41:45 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH 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. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.linux-rutgers.kernel@srcf.ucam.org