Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Oct 1998 07:40:08 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.1.125 ... pre-2.2 imminent |
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On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Shawn Leas <sleas@ixion.honeywell.com> said: > > [...] > > > I have to say, there's more people running/testing devfs > > right now, even being it is a seperate patch, than a LOT > > of INCLUDED kernel drivers... It has been FURIOUSLY tested. > > > > I believe including it would DEFINITELY NOT hurt. It has > > NO effect if you CONFIG_DEVFS=n > > Except more code to be maintained.
We have a maintainer for it, or at least it certainly appears like we do...
> Besides, AFAIKS it "fixes" a nonexistent problem by creating worse.
It offers an option, and doesn't 'fix' anything unless you ask it to, and as best I can tell a fairly signifigant number of people are using it and feel it's worthwhile.
Stephen
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