From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
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: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 07:02:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050911110214.GA16408@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0509110016110.29141@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 12:20:06AM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> >I'll bite - what distros are shipping a kernel 2.6.10 or later and still
> >using devfs?
> >
> I'll admit I don't keep track of the distros and what kernels and features
> they are useing. I think I've heard people mention gentoo, but I
> haven't verified this.
Nope, not Gentoo --- Greg KH fixed gentoo a while ago. :-)
> however with the thousands of linux distros out there I'd lay odds that
> _someone_ is doing it ;-)
Yes, but if none of the major distributions are doing it, then past a
certain point we should just pull the trigger and be done with it.
C'mon, devfs's impending removal has been announced for a year. It's
not like anyone can complain that they didn't get enough warning.....
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-11 11:02 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
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 [this message]
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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