From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266869AbUGVSBH (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:01:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266881AbUGVR7L (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:59:11 -0400 Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.202.55]:18857 "EHLO sccrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266869AbUGVR4c (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:56:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:56:17 -0700 From: Deepak Saxena To: Jesse Stockall Cc: Greg KH , Oliver Neukum , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] delete devfs Message-ID: <20040722175617.GA5724@plexity.net> Reply-To: dsaxena@plexity.net References: <20040721141524.GA12564@kroah.com> <200407211626.55670.oliver@neukum.org> <20040721145208.GA13522@kroah.com> <1090444782.8033.4.camel@homer.blizzard.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1090444782.8033.4.camel@homer.blizzard.org> Organization: Plexity Networks User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Jul 21 2004, at 17:19, Jesse Stockall was caught saying: > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 10:52, Greg KH wrote: > > > > And as Lars points out, the code is unmaintained, unused, and buggy. > > All good reasons to rip out it out at any moment in time. > > Unused? Since when does every Linux user use a vendor supplied kernel? I > have no use for devfs, never used it in the past, and I'm a happy udev > user now, but that doesn't change the fact that there are many devfs > users out there. If the devfs user community really wants to keep using devfs, they can volunteer to maintain it as a separate project & patch. > What does this gain us right now? A single maintained solution/implementation for a given problem in the main tree. This is a good thing. ~Deepak -- Deepak Saxena - dsaxena at plexity dot net - http://www.plexity.net/ "Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment and will die here like rotten cabbages." - Number 6