From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266549AbUGUToO (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:44:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266565AbUGUToO (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:44:14 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:58299 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266549AbUGUToM (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:44:12 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:25:35 -0400 From: Greg KH To: Matthew Garrett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] delete devfs Message-ID: <20040721182535.GC16838@kroah.com> References: <20040721141524.GA12564@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 03:41:45PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > >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. > > The new Debian installer requires devfs on several architectures, even > for 2.6 installs. That's unlikely to get changed before release. Great, if you want to rely on this, and you get around to using a kernel that doesn't have it in it, just add it to the other patches you apply to your kernel. thanks, greg k-h