Re: [PATCH] delete devfs

Matthew Garrett
2004-07-21T14:42:00Z

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.

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