Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] delete devfs | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Date | Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:41:45 +0100 |
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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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