From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches for 2.6.31-git
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:45:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090916124533.GA11222@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090915181247.GA32167@kroah.com>
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:12:47AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Here is the driver core patchset for the 2.6.31 merge window
>
> It consists of a variety of different things:
> - devtmpfs. This has been discussed a lot, is tiny,
> self-contained, and has been acked by all of the major distros
> as something they will use, and it has been used in the SuSE
> kernels for quite some time now.
Grr, as Greg didn't Cc the actual patches to Linus here's the objection
again:
- it mounts a filesystem into the init (aka global) namespace on mount
for no good reason
- it then manipulates it using the high-level VFS functions which it
could just do on any filesystem if it really wanted
These lots of dicussions were basically people telling Greg that he
should come up wit ha real problem instead of just pushing it for it's
own sake. Arjan And Eric have very well refuted the spped claim.
NACK from me from the VFS point of view - this is devfs 2.0, just worse
than the last version of devfs 1. I would really really like to head
what the udev folks actually want instead of pushing in this crap.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-16 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-15 18:12 [GIT PATCH] driver core patches for 2.6.31-git Greg KH
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 01/20] Driver core: add new device to bus's list before probing Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 02/20] Driver core: move dev_get/set_drvdata to drivers/base/dd.c Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 03/20] Driver core: Add accessor for device platform data Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 04/20] UIO: remove 'default n' from Kconfig Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:35 ` Hans J. Koch
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 05/20] driver model: constify attribute groups Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 06/20] mem_class: use minor as index instead of searching the array Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:42 ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-15 19:46 ` Kay Sievers
2009-09-15 20:07 ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-15 20:24 ` Greg KH
2009-09-15 21:18 ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-15 21:20 ` Greg KH
2009-09-15 21:26 ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-15 21:32 ` Greg KH
2009-09-15 22:06 ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-19 15:17 ` Tilman Schmidt
2009-09-19 16:01 ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 07/20] mem_class: fix bug Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 08/20] driver-core: move dma-coherent.c from kernel to driver/base Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 09/20] uio: add generic driver for PCI 2.3 devices Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 10/20] Driver core: Add support for compatibility classes Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 11/20] driver core: platform_device_add_data(): use kmemdup() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 12/20] hpilo: staging for interrupt handling Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 13/20] hpilo: add interrupt handler Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 14/20] hpilo: add poll f_op Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 15/20] debugfs: Fix mount directory of debugfs by default in events.txt Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 16/20] debugfs: Change debuhgfs directory of trace-events-sample.h Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 17/20] debugfs: Change debugfs directory of IWMC3200 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 18/20] debugfs: Modified default dir of debugfs for debugging UHCI Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 19/20] debugfs: Modify default debugfs directory for debugging pktcdvd Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 20/20] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 23:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-15 23:43 ` Greg KH
2009-09-16 12:45 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-09-16 12:59 ` [GIT PATCH] driver core patches for 2.6.31-git Greg KH
2009-09-16 13:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-16 13:59 ` Kay Sievers
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