Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:52:54 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.13 |
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On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 01:27:34AM -0700, Mike Bell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 02:45:42PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Also, if people _really_ are in love with the idea of an in-kernel > > devfs, I have posted a patch that does this in about 300 lines of code, > > called ndevfs. > > Except that as I mentioned, it's broken by design. It creates yet > another incompatible naming scheme for devices, and what's worse the > devices it breaks are the ones like ALSA and the input subsystem, whose > locations are hard-coded into libraries. Unless sysfs is going to get > attributes from which the proper names could be derived, it won't ever > work.
I didn't say it was a "nice" solution, fully LSB compliant and all. All it is is a solution that can work for some people, if they just want a small, in-kernel devfs-like solution.
And it works just fine for alsa and input devices for me, just no subdirs :)
Anyway, I'm not offering it up for inclusion in the kernel tree at all, but for a proof-of-concept for those who were insisting that it was impossible to keep a devfs-like patchset out of the main kernel tree easily.
thanks,
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