Re: State of devfs in 2.6?

Rob Landley
2003-12-09T16:48:31Z

On Monday 08 December 2003 17:34, Greg KH wrote:

> > - 5 input/ devices
>
> Patch for sysfs support for this has been posted by Hanna Linder. It
> still needs work before being added to the kernel tree.
>
> > - full, kmem, kmsg, mem, null, port, random, urandom, zero
>
> Patch for this has been posted by me to lkml in the past. It will
> probably go into 2.6.1
>
> > - printers/0
>
> Hanna Linder is working on a patch for these devices.
>
> > - 5 misc/ devices
>
> Patch for this has been posted by me to lkml in the past. It will
> probably go into 2.6.1.
>
> > - 12 snd/ devices
> > - 5 sound/ devices
>
> I have a patch here from Leann Ogasawara that adds sysfs support for
> these devices. I've been lacking time to test it better, but again, it
> will probably make it into 2.6.1.

Is there a big rollup patch against that adds all the sys/*/dev entries for
people who want to try udev?

Rob