Re: [PATCH] delete devfs

Ben Collins
2004-07-21T22:02:42Z

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 03:41:45PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> >Ok, to test out the new development model, here's a nice patch that
> >simply removes the devfs code. No commercial distro supports this for
> >2.6, and both Gentoo and Debian have full udev support for 2.6, so it is
> >not needed there either. Combine this with the fact that Richard has
> >sent me a number of good udev patches to fix up some "emulate devfs with
> >udev" minor issues, I think we can successfully do this now.
>
> The new Debian installer requires devfs on several architectures, even
> for 2.6 installs. That's unlikely to get changed before release.

What's keeping those architectures from switching to udev?

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