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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev	tmpfs
Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 12:59:33 -0400
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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

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