From: "Mark Chambers" <markc@mail.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
"Embedded Linux PPC list" <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: what is the status of devfs?
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 08:05:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003301c465ad$04db1230$0301a8c0@chuck2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.60.0407081035280.32470@localhost.localdomain
>
> probably should send this to the main kernel list, but in playing
> around, i noticed that DEVFS_FS is labelled as both OBSOLETE and NEW,
> but in the Kconfig file, it depends on EXPERIMENTAL.
>
> it seems a bit inconsistent for anything to be simultaneously
> EXPERIMENTAL, NEW and OBSOLETE, no?
>
I found the following in udev-FAQ:
Q: Why was devfs marked OBSOLETE if udev is not finished yet?
A: To quote Al Viro (Linux VFS kernel maintainer):
- it was determined that the same thing could be done in userspace
- devfs had been shoved into the tree in hope that its quality will
catch up
- devfs was found to have fixable and unfixable bugs
- the former had stayed around for many months with maintainer
claiming that everything works fine
- the latter had stayed, period.
- the devfs maintainer/author disappeared and stoped maintaining
the code.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-09 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-08 14:38 what is the status of devfs? Robert P. J. Day
2004-07-09 11:17 ` Christian Tröster
2004-07-09 12:05 ` Mark Chambers [this message]
2004-07-09 12:18 ` Robert P. J. Day
2004-07-09 12:49 ` David Woodhouse
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