From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266703AbUGVQNm (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:13:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266704AbUGVQNm (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:13:42 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao09.cox.net ([68.230.241.30]:7649 "EHLO fed1rmmtao09.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266703AbUGVQNj (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:13:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:13:35 -0700 From: Matt Porter To: Greg KH Cc: Oliver Neukum , Jesse Stockall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rgooch@safe-mbox.com, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] delete devfs Message-ID: <20040722091335.A17187@home.com> References: <20040721141524.GA12564@kroah.com> <1090446817.8033.18.camel@homer.blizzard.org> <20040721220529.GB18721@kroah.com> <200407220047.53153.oliver@neukum.org> <20040722064952.GC20561@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20040722064952.GC20561@kroah.com>; from greg@kroah.com on Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:49:53AM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:49:53AM -0400, Greg KH wrote: > Also, everyone please, consider these points about the current devfs > code: > - it is unmaintained, and has been for years. > - it contains known bugs (race conditions), that are pretty much > unsolvable with the current architecture of the code, that > have been pointed out many times, for years. > - there is almost no functionality that devfs provides that is > not provided with udev[1] > - no distro supports devfs Minor nit: this is not true, maybe if you are talking only about desktop/server distros. MontaVista Linux 3.1 uses devfs by default. However, with udev devfs compatibility it easy for that distro to migrate users IMHO. So, let's apply this patch so mvista doesn't ship another release with devfs. :) -Matt