From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751122AbVJMXzO (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:55:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751132AbVJMXzO (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:55:14 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:33188 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751122AbVJMXzN (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:55:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:53:58 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "Mathieu Therrien, VE2TMQ" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch: Remove devfs from 2.6.13 Message-ID: <20051013235358.GA4443@suse.de> References: <434E9D48.70306@rac.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <434E9D48.70306@rac.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 01:45:44PM -0400, Mathieu Therrien, VE2TMQ wrote: > Hello every one!  I read this document : class="moz-txt-link-freetext" > href="http://lwn.net/Articles/151174/">http://lwn.net/Articles/151174/
> but I don't understand the reason to remove devfs from the kernel > selection.  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