Re: [PATCH] delete devfs

Kasper Sandberg
2004-07-21T15:49:32Z

pretty nice - i like it

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 10:15 -0400, Greg KH wrote:
> Hm, seems kernel.org dropped my big patch, so the patch below can be
> found at:
> www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/misc/2.6/devfs-delete-2.6.8-rc2.patch
>
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> -----
>
> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 02:49:37 -0400
> From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
> Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [PATCH] delete devfs
>
> 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.
>
> Andrew, please apply this to your tree and feel free to send it to Linus
> when you think it should be there.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
> <PATCH SNIPPED>
>
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