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From: Mike Bell <mike@mikebell.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.13
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 01:27:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050910082732.GR13742@mikebell.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050909214542.GA29200@kroah.com>

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 02:45:42PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Also, if people _really_ are in love with the idea of an in-kernel
> devfs, I have posted a patch that does this in about 300 lines of code,
> called ndevfs.

Except that as I mentioned, it's broken by design. It creates yet
another incompatible naming scheme for devices, and what's worse the
devices it breaks are the ones like ALSA and the input subsystem, whose
locations are hard-coded into libraries. Unless sysfs is going to get
attributes from which the proper names could be derived, it won't ever
work.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-10  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-09 21:45 [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.13 Greg KH
2005-09-10  8:27 ` Mike Bell [this message]
2005-09-10 21:52   ` Greg KH
2005-09-10 23:03     ` Mike Bell
2005-09-11  5:09       ` Greg KH
2005-09-12 13:40         ` Steven Rostedt
2005-09-14 20:00         ` Mike Bell
2005-09-14 20:28           ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-14 23:06           ` Greg KH
2005-09-15  2:10             ` Ioan Ionita
2005-09-10  9:03 ` [GIT PATCH] " Michael Thonke
2005-09-10 12:32   ` Douglas McNaught
2005-09-10 21:55   ` Greg KH
2005-09-10 14:15 ` J.A. Magallon
2005-09-10 23:24 ` J.A. Magallon
2005-09-10 23:30   ` Greg KH
2005-09-11  0:48 ` David Lang
2005-09-11  3:07   ` Greg KH
2005-09-11  6:08     ` David Lang
2005-09-11  7:05       ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-09-11  7:13       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-09-11  7:20         ` David Lang
2005-09-11 11:02           ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-09-12  8:01             ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-09-11 17:15           ` Greg KH
2005-09-11 11:35         ` Bastian Blank
2005-09-11 11:42           ` CaT
2005-09-11 17:17       ` Greg KH
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-11 11:44 linux
2005-09-11 15:43 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-14 20:01   ` Mike Bell
2005-09-14 20:13     ` Kyle Moffett

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