From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265445AbTLHPnz (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 10:43:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265460AbTLHPnz (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 10:43:55 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([199.26.172.102]:41179 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265445AbTLHPnE (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 10:43:04 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 07:42:56 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrew Walrond Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: State of devfs in 2.6? Message-ID: <20031208154256.GV19856@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Walrond , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200312081536.26022.andrew@walrond.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200312081536.26022.andrew@walrond.org> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:36:26PM +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote: > Whats the general feeling about devfs now? I remember Christoph and others > making some nasty remarks about it 6months ago or so, but later noted > christoph doing some slashing and burning thereof. > Is it 'nice' yet? > Andrew Walrond I would say it's deprecated at the very least. sysfs and udev are supposed to provide equivalent functionality, albeit by a somewhat different mechanism. -- wli