From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261459AbVFUNzm (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:55:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261389AbVFUNxN (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:53:13 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:16648 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261326AbVFUNuH (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:50:07 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:50:05 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andrew Morton Cc: Greg KH , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.12-git Message-ID: <20050621135005.GN3666@stusta.de> References: <20050621062926.GB15062@kroah.com> <20050620235403.45bf9613.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050620235403.45bf9613.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:54:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > > > Just in time for a July release, here's a patch series that removes > > devfs from the kernel tree as promised. > > Whimper. > > Maybe we should cook this in -mm for a bit, get a feeling for how many > users hate us, and how much? > > This is going to hurt: > > bix:/usr/src/25> grep -l devfs patches/*.patch > patches/areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver-fix.patch > patches/areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch > patches/bk-ide-dev.patch > patches/git-input.patch > patches/git-mtd.patch > patches/git-ocfs.patch > patches/git-scsi-misc-drivers-scsi-chc-remove-devfs-stuff.patch > patches/gregkh-driver-class-02-tty.patch > patches/gregkh-driver-class-03-input.patch > patches/gregkh-driver-class-05-sound.patch > patches/gregkh-driver-class-06-block.patch > patches/gregkh-driver-class-07-char.patch > patches/gregkh-driver-class-08-ieee1394.patch > patches/gregkh-driver-class-09-scsi.patch > patches/gregkh-driver-class-11-drivers.patch > patches/gregkh-driver-class-12-the_rest.patch > patches/gregkh-driver-ipmi-class_simple-fixes.patch > patches/gregkh-i2c-i2c-config_cleanup-01.patch > patches/kdump-accessing-dump-file-in-linear-raw-format.patch > patches/linus.patch > patches/md-add-interface-for-userspace-monitoring-of-events.patch > patches/md-optimised-resync-using-bitmap-based-intent-logging.patch > patches/post-halloween-doc.patch > patches/st-warning-fix.patch I don't see any place where this is not either: - in documentation or - already removed again in a second patch in -mm or - only in patch context Since the patch context issues are all in patches by Greg that went into Linus' tree after 2.6.12-mm1 I doubt there will be many problems after merging them. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed