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* [2.6 patch] document that udev isn't yet ready (fwd)
@ 2003-11-19 21:32 Adrian Bunk
  2003-11-19 22:14 ` Greg KH
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Adrian Bunk @ 2003-11-19 21:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton, Greg KH; +Cc: linux-kernel

The trivial documentation patch forwarded below still applies (with a 
few lines offset) against 2.6.0-test9-mm4.

Please apply
Adrian


----- Forwarded message from Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> -----

Date:	Wed, 8 Oct 2003 14:07:11 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [2.6 patch] document that udev isn't yet ready

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:30:21AM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:51:27 +0000, Greg KH wrote:
> > And remember, _I_ did not submit that patch to the kernel marking devfs
> > obsolete.  Other kernel developers did.  And for good reasons, which
> > have all been explained before.  Even if udev wasn't even written yet,
> > it would have been done.
> 
> "Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev,"
> 
> Most people expect after reading that sentence, that udev can do the
> work devfs did for them. But udev is not ready to do that, even by
> far. Thats why people complain.
>...

The following trivial change to te help text should clarify it:

--- linux-2.6.0-test6-mm4/fs/Kconfig.old	2003-10-08 14:02:15.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.0-test6-mm4/fs/Kconfig	2003-10-08 14:03:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@
 	  ptys, you will also need to enable (and mount) the /dev/pts
 	  filesystem (CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS).
 
-	  Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev,
+	  Note that devfs will be obsoleted by udev
 	  <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/>.
 	  It has been stripped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for
 	  legacy installations that use its naming scheme which is


> Regards, Andreas

cu
Adrian

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2003-11-19 21:32 [2.6 patch] document that udev isn't yet ready (fwd) Adrian Bunk
2003-11-19 22:14 ` Greg KH
2003-11-19 23:12   ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-11-19 23:26     ` Greg KH
2003-11-20 12:52       ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-20 17:03         ` Greg KH
2003-11-20 22:24           ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-20 22:28           ` driver model for inputs Pavel Machek
2003-11-20 22:48             ` Hanna Linder
2003-11-20 22:55               ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-20 23:18                 ` Hanna Linder
2003-11-20 23:54                   ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-21  0:35                     ` Hanna Linder
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