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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Daniele Orlandi <daniele@orlandi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: An idea on devfs vs. udev
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 10:51:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051108185101.GA16011@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051108184132.GC8126@waste.org>

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:41:32AM -0800, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 02:23:09PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:18:12AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> > > But then to make matters worse, there is this "sample.sh" file.  UGH!
> > > It's a bit of shell code exported by the kernel.
> > >    #!/bin/sh
> > >    mknod /dev/hda  b 3 0
> > 
> > That's just a "joke" patch that is only in the -mm tree, as it gets
> > pulled in from my tree.  It's not in mainline, and will never go there.
> 
> Perhaps you can drop this horror now that Halloween has passed.

Heh.  But why?  Is it causing problems for anyone?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-08 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-30 18:07 An idea on devfs vs. udev Daniele Orlandi
2005-10-30 21:18 ` Neil Brown
2005-10-30 22:23   ` Greg KH
2005-10-30 21:32     ` Neil Brown
2005-11-08 18:41     ` Matt Mackall
2005-11-08 18:51       ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-11-08 19:17         ` Matt Mackall
2005-11-08 22:13           ` Bill Davidsen
2005-10-30 21:57 ` Rob Landley
2005-10-31  9:21   ` Frank Sorenson
2005-10-30 22:18 ` Greg KH
2005-10-30 21:35   ` Neil Brown
2005-10-30 21:48     ` Daniele Orlandi

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