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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: "Mathieu Therrien, VE2TMQ" <ve2tmq@rac.ca>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch: Remove devfs from 2.6.13
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:53:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051013235358.GA4443@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <434E9D48.70306@rac.ca>

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 01:45:44PM -0400, Mathieu Therrien, VE2TMQ wrote:
> Hello every one!&nbsp; I read this document : <a
> class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
> href="http://lwn.net/Articles/151174/">http://lwn.net/Articles/151174/</a><br>
> but I don't understand the reason to remove devfs from the kernel
> selection.&nbsp;

Please search the archives for the reasons why.  In short:
	- It had unfixable bugs.
	- It was unmaintained for many years.
	- It has been marked OBSOLETE for about 1 1/2 years
	- It has been documented that it would be removed for over a
	  year.
	- It puts naming policy into the kernel, where it is not needed.
	- It is not LSB compliant.
	- there are numerous userspace solutions that do the same thing,
	  in much better ways.

thanks,

greg k-h

           reply	other threads:[~2005-10-13 23:55 UTC|newest]

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