Re: New dev model (was [PATCH] delete devfs)

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:55:39AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote:
> >
> > Changes that remove functionally like Greg's patch are hopefully 
> > still 2.7 stuff - 2.6 is a stable kernel series and smooth upgrades 
> > inside a stable kernel series are a must for many users.
> 
> I don't necessarily agree that such changes in the userspace interface
> should be tied to the kernel version number, really.  That's a three or
> four year warning period, which is unreasonably long.  Six to twelve months
> should be long enough for udev-based replacements to stabilise and
> propagate out into distributions.

Users have had the 6-12 month warning about devfs for a while now :)
And udev is currently available in the latest distro versions of:
	- Red Hat
	- SuSE
	- Gentoo
	- Debian
	- Mandrake

While devfs is only supported in Gentoo at this time (and udev fills
that support issue for those users.)

> That being said, mid-2005 would be an appropriate time to remove devfs.  If
> that schedule pushes things along faster than they would otherwise have
> progressed, well, good.

Ok, if people think that would really change anything, I'll wait a year.
I'm patient :)

thanks,

greg k-h