Re: [PATCH] delete devfs

Adrian Bunk
2004-07-21T22:02:53Z

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:27:52PM -0400, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:19:42PM -0400, Jesse Stockall wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 10:52, Greg KH wrote:
> > >
> > > And as Lars points out, the code is unmaintained, unused, and buggy.
> > > All good reasons to rip out it out at any moment in time.
> >
> > Unused? Since when does every Linux user use a vendor supplied kernel? I
> > have no use for devfs, never used it in the past, and I'm a happy udev
> > user now, but that doesn't change the fact that there are many devfs
> > users out there.
> >
> > What does this gain us right now?
>
> It fixes an obviously broken chunk of code that is not maintained by
> _anyone_. And it will clean up all device drivers a _lot_ to have this
> gone, which will benifit everyone in the long run.

I wouldn't disagree with this statement. I'd be very surprised if 2.7.2
would still contain devfs.

> As for "right now"? Why not? I'm just embracing the new development
> model of the kernel :)

Could anyone please explain this mysterious "new development model of
the kernel"?

Is this some personal fight from you against Linus or someone else you
are trying to bring to linux-kernel, or WTF has happened???

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

cu
Adrian

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