From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262115AbVFUPOI (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:14:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262090AbVFUPNZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:13:25 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:39908 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262100AbVFUPKe (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:10:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:10:19 -0700 From: Greg KH 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: <20050621151019.GA19666@kroah.com> 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/1.5.8i 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. Heh, you said you wanted me to merge my stuff before yours :) > Maybe we should cook this in -mm for a bit, get a feeling for how many > users hate us, and how much? There might be some complaints. But I doubt they would be from anyone running a -mm tree as those people kind of know the current status of things in the kernel. There have been numerous warnings as to the fact that this was going away, and I waited a _year_ to do this. Also, no disto uses devfs only (gentoo is close, but offers users udev and a static /dev also.) > patches/areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver-fix.patch > patches/areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch Shouldn't be hard > patches/bk-ide-dev.patch > patches/git-input.patch > patches/git-mtd.patch > patches/git-ocfs.patch Merging will fix these > patches/git-scsi-misc-drivers-scsi-chc-remove-devfs-stuff.patch Sounds like you can drop this :) > 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 I'll handle these > patches/kdump-accessing-dump-file-in-linear-raw-format.patch Should be easy. > patches/linus.patch Not relevant :) > 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 Again, shouldn't be that hard. So there are probably 7 patches that need to get rediffed. In your normal merges, I can't see that being all that difficult :) Or I can wait until you go next. I didn't want these patches in the -mm tree as they would have caused you too much work to keep up to date and not conflict with anything else due to the size of them. thanks, greg k-h