Re: [PATCH] delete devfs

Greg KH
2004-07-21T19:44:14Z

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.

Great, if you want to rely on this, and you get around to using a kernel
that doesn't have it in it, just add it to the other patches you apply
to your kernel.

thanks,

greg k-h