From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267783AbTGIBML (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 21:12:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268044AbTGIBML (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 21:12:11 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:7638 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267783AbTGIBLg (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 21:11:36 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 18:26:20 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: herbert@13thfloor.at Cc: arvidjaar@mail.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5.74] devfs lookup deadlock/stack corruption combined patch Message-Id: <20030708182620.590edd06.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030709012014.GA19777@www.13thfloor.at> References: <200307072306.15995.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <20030707140010.4268159f.akpm@osdl.org> <200307082149.17918.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <20030709012014.GA19777@www.13thfloor.at> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0pre1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:49:17PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > > > I do not want to sound like it has to be ignored - but devfs code is so messy > > that no trivial fix exists that would not make code even more messy. So I > > sorry to interrupt, but wasn't there an ongoing > efford to replace the devfs with smalldevfs or > something even better? *hint* > Yes, but a) It didn't have a compatible solution for the legacy device names (/dev/hda, etc). Could have been fixed up in userspace but the work was not done. b) Certain parties youknowwhoyouare seem to have been stricken by smalldevfs amnesia. I'm hoping that smalldevfs comes back. The current thing is a running sore.