* Re: Patch: Remove devfs from 2.6.13
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@ 2005-10-13 23:53 ` Greg KH
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From: Greg KH @ 2005-10-13 23:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mathieu Therrien, VE2TMQ; +Cc: Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton, linux-kernel
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 01:45:44PM -0400, Mathieu Therrien, VE2TMQ wrote:
> Hello every one! 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.
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
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