Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:29:45 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.16 |
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On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:33:13PM +0900, Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > They are the same "delete devfs" patches that I submitted for 2.6.12 and > > 2.6.13 and 2.6.14 and 2.6.15. It rips out all of devfs from the kernel > > and ends up saving a lot of space. Since 2.6.13 came out, I have seen > > no complaints about the fact that devfs was not able to be enabled > > anymore, and in fact, a lot of different subsystems have already been > > deleting devfs support for a while now, with apparently no complaints > > (due to the lack of users.) > > > > It's also been over 8 months past the date when we said we would delete > > devfs from the kernel tree in the file, > > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt, and over one and one half > > years since we publicly announced to the world that devfs would be > > removed from the kernel tree. So, I think people have had plenty of > > advance notice that this was going to happen by now :) > > > > Please pull from: > > rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6.git/ > > or if master.kernel.org hasn't synced up yet: > > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6.git/ > > > > I've posted all of these patches before, but if people really want to look at them, they can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-05-devfs/ > > > > 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. It is available in the archives if anyone wants to use > > that instead (it is quite easy to maintain that patch outside of the > > kernel tree, due to it only needing 3 hooks into the main kernel tree.) > > OK, I completely agree with that, but shouldn't there be left something in > the Documentation at least? A note like "devfs was superseded by udev since > 2.6.?? and was completely removed since 2.6.??" or something along the same > line of thought? It will just make life easier for people finding lots of > old pages and HOWTOs on the Net mentioning devfs. > > Unfortunately I couldn't find a proper place for that note... > Maybe a new file Documentation/filesystems/devfs.txt instead of the > Documentation/filesystems/devfs directory present now?
There's already a note in Documentation/Changes.
> Kalin.
cu Adrian
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