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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] delete devfs
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    Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

    >Ok, to test out the new development model, here's a nice patch that
    >simply removes the devfs code. No commercial distro supports this for
    >2.6, and both Gentoo and Debian have full udev support for 2.6, so it is
    >not needed there either. Combine this with the fact that Richard has
    >sent me a number of good udev patches to fix up some "emulate devfs with
    >udev" minor issues, I think we can successfully do this now.

    The new Debian installer requires devfs on several architectures, even
    for 2.6 installs. That's unlikely to get changed before release.

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    Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.linux-rutgers.kernel@srcf.ucam.org
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