From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266525AbUGUPtc (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:49:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266526AbUGUPtb (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:49:31 -0400 Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.235]:30546 "EHLO pfepa.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266525AbUGUPtW (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:49:22 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] delete devfs From: Kasper Sandberg To: Greg KH Cc: LKML Mailinglist In-Reply-To: <20040721141524.GA12564@kroah.com> References: <20040721141524.GA12564@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:49:21 +0200 Message-Id: <1090424961.16171.4.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 1.5.9 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org pretty nice - i like it On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 10:15 -0400, Greg KH wrote: > Hm, seems kernel.org dropped my big patch, so the patch below can be > found at: > www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/misc/2.6/devfs-delete-2.6.8-rc2.patch > > > > ----- Forwarded message from Greg KH ----- > > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 02:49:37 -0400 > From: Greg KH > To: Andrew Morton > Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: [PATCH] delete devfs > > 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. > > Andrew, please apply this to your tree and feel free to send it to Linus > when you think it should be there. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >