From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <003301c465ad$04db1230$0301a8c0@chuck2> From: "Mark Chambers" To: "Robert P. J. Day" , "Embedded Linux PPC list" References: Subject: Re: what is the status of devfs? Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 08:05:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > > 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. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/