Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jul 2003 04:09:43 +0200 | From | Herbert Poetzl <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2.5.74] devfs lookup deadlock/stack corruption combined patch |
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:26:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> 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. > > > > 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.
I might be totally wrong, as I can only speak for 2.4 (which has no ongoing/forgotten smalldevfs efford ;), but devfs has definitely divided the users into two groups (think religion/war) ...
the group using devfs, usually doesn't care about the 'compatibility' issue, the other doesn't care at all ... so this isn't an issue at all ...
> b) Certain parties youknowwhoyouare seem to have been stricken > by smalldevfs amnesia.
maybe this helps youknowwhoyoumean to remember ...
> I'm hoping that smalldevfs comes back. > The current thing is a running sore.
I'm hoping too, and I would like to see it on 2.6 as well as 2.4 ...
using 2.4 I'm currently bound to devfs, as I'm one of the pro-devfs guys, and I think Richard Gooch did a great work with it ... (maybe a little too much work actually ;)
best, Herbert
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