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SubjectRe: Linux-2.1.125 ... pre-2.2 imminent
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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