Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.13

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 01:27:34AM -0700, Mike Bell wrote:
> 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.

I didn't say it was a "nice" solution, fully LSB compliant and all.  All
it is is a solution that can work for some people, if they just want a
small, in-kernel devfs-like solution.

And it works just fine for alsa and input devices for me, just no
subdirs :)

Anyway, I'm not offering it up for inclusion in the kernel tree at all,
but for a proof-of-concept for those who were insisting that it was
impossible to keep a devfs-like patchset out of the main kernel tree
easily.

thanks,

greg k-h