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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, ULMO@Q.NET, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DevFS vs. udev
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:38:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031223183820.5b297c50.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0312240938450.890-100000@wombat.indigo.net.au>

Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
>
> However, if Andrew wants it gone from the kernel there is no point.

I do not.  devfs shall remain in 2.6 and shall continue to be supported.

Richard has disappeared but Andrey Borzenkov understands devfs well and
performed valuable work on it during 2.5 development.


Nor would I recommend that devfs be removed early from 2.7.x.  We should
wait until the proposed udev/sysfs solutions have matured in 2.6 and have
proven themselves in the field.  Only then will we be in a position to
confirm that devfs can be removed without causing some people unacceptable
levels of grief.    There is no rush.


And yes, there are architectural/cleanliness issues with devfs.  In 2.5
Adam Richter totally reinventing devfs's internals, basing it around the
ramfs infrastructure.  If we elect to retain devfs in 2.8 then that effort
should be resurrected.


Now would be a good time for someone to feed the whole thing through indent
though.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-24  2:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-23 11:51 DevFS vs. udev Bradley W. Allen
2003-12-23 12:06 ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-23 12:12 ` Xavier Bestel
2003-12-23 12:37   ` Marcelo Bezerra
2003-12-23 13:02     ` Ed Tomlinson
2003-12-25 12:11     ` Kai Henningsen
2003-12-23 14:30 ` Paul Dickson
2003-12-23 23:23   ` Bradley W. Allen
2003-12-23 23:46     ` Brett
2003-12-24  4:01     ` alex.g.goddard.1
2003-12-23 16:19 ` Ian Kent
2003-12-23 17:34   ` Mark Mielke
2003-12-23 22:02     ` Greg KH
2003-12-23 22:13       ` Tomasz Torcz
2003-12-24  0:45       ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-24  1:07         ` Greg KH
2003-12-24  1:22           ` memory mapping help - oracle stack dumps Paul
2003-12-27 21:13             ` Francois Romieu
2003-12-24  1:28           ` DevFS vs. udev Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-23 21:59 ` Greg KH
2003-12-24  1:52   ` Ian Kent
2003-12-24  2:03     ` Rob Love
2003-12-24  2:21       ` Ian Kent
2003-12-24  2:22         ` Rob Love
2003-12-24  2:32           ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-24  2:39             ` Rob Love
2003-12-24  2:38     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-12-24  3:41       ` viro
2003-12-24 11:33         ` Witukind
2003-12-24  4:13 ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-24  4:38   ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-24 11:15     ` Xavier Bestel
2003-12-24 13:44       ` Ian Soboroff
2003-12-24 14:17         ` Xavier Bestel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-07 12:38 devfs " Måns Rullgård
2003-10-07 13:41 ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2003-10-07 14:07   ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-07 14:23     ` Robert L. Harris
2003-10-07 14:29       ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-07 16:06       ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2003-10-07 16:11         ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-07 16:14         ` Robert L. Harris
2003-10-07 16:54         ` Hugo Mills
2003-10-07 17:19           ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-07 17:47             ` Greg KH
2003-10-07 17:49           ` Greg KH
2003-10-07 17:58             ` Hugo Mills
2003-10-07 18:10               ` Greg KH
2003-10-09 13:43             ` Ian Kent
2003-10-09 20:54               ` Greg KH
2003-10-07 17:55     ` Greg KH
2003-10-14 13:51     ` Ian Kent
2003-10-17  4:34       ` Greg KH
2003-10-07 17:54   ` Greg KH
2003-10-07 14:01 ` tabris
2003-10-07 17:53 ` Greg KH
2003-10-07 18:24   ` viro

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