From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261432AbVFKPlb (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:41:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261553AbVFKPlb (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:41:31 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:28545 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261432AbVFKPlO (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:41:14 -0400 Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 16:41:07 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Patch series to remove devfs [00/22] Message-ID: <20050611154107.GA32149@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Adrian Bunk , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050611074327.GA27785@kroah.com> <20050611102133.GA3770@stusta.de> <20050611143904.GA30612@suse.de> <20050611153656.GB3770@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050611153656.GB3770@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 05:36:56PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Yes, there are many places where 2.4 and 2.6 are not source compatible > for good reasons. But if the effort for maintaining compatibility > between 2.4 and 2.6 in one area is as easy as keeping a header file with > some dummy funtions it's worth considering. The devfs calls for 2.4 and 2.6 are totally incompatible. And there's a trivial way to support both 2.4 and 2.6 in this area: don't support devfs at all, it always was marked either experimental or deprecated anyway.