From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [2.6 patch] document that udev isn't yet ready (fwd)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:32:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031119213237.GA16828@fs.tum.de> (raw)
The trivial documentation patch forwarded below still applies (with a
few lines offset) against 2.6.0-test9-mm4.
Please apply
Adrian
----- Forwarded message from Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> -----
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 14:07:11 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [2.6 patch] document that udev isn't yet ready
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:30:21AM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:51:27 +0000, Greg KH wrote:
> > And remember, _I_ did not submit that patch to the kernel marking devfs
> > obsolete. Other kernel developers did. And for good reasons, which
> > have all been explained before. Even if udev wasn't even written yet,
> > it would have been done.
>
> "Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev,"
>
> Most people expect after reading that sentence, that udev can do the
> work devfs did for them. But udev is not ready to do that, even by
> far. Thats why people complain.
>...
The following trivial change to te help text should clarify it:
--- linux-2.6.0-test6-mm4/fs/Kconfig.old 2003-10-08 14:02:15.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.0-test6-mm4/fs/Kconfig 2003-10-08 14:03:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@
ptys, you will also need to enable (and mount) the /dev/pts
filesystem (CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS).
- Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev,
+ Note that devfs will be obsoleted by udev
<http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/>.
It has been stripped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for
legacy installations that use its naming scheme which is
> Regards, Andreas
cu
Adrian
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next reply other threads:[~2003-11-19 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-19 21:32 Adrian Bunk [this message]
2003-11-19 22:14 ` [2.6 patch] document that udev isn't yet ready (fwd) Greg KH
2003-11-19 23:12 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-11-19 23:26 ` Greg KH
2003-11-20 12:52 ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-20 17:03 ` Greg KH
2003-11-20 22:24 ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-20 22:28 ` driver model for inputs Pavel Machek
2003-11-20 22:48 ` Hanna Linder
2003-11-20 22:55 ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-20 23:18 ` Hanna Linder
2003-11-20 23:54 ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-21 0:35 ` Hanna Linder
2003-11-20 23:09 ` viro
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