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SubjectRe: devfs patch v4
Stefan Mars writes:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> > Hi, all. Once again I'm happy to announce version 4 of my devfs
> > patch. This fixes a silly bug in the directory reading code, and fixes
> > compilation for kerneld.
> >
> > The patch also adds support for generic hard discs (I've kept the
> > existing naming scheme as IDE discs don't suffer from renumbering, so
> > there doesn't seem much point in changing (I don't want to break
> > things for the sake of aesthetics)).
>
> Out of curiousity.. this devfs thing, can it be applied to a 2.0 kernel,
> or is 2.1.x only?

Well, anything in principle can be backported, but it's a question of
whether or not it's worthwhile. My view is that by the time devfs
stabilises and is included in the 2.1.x series, 2.2 will nearly be out
there. I see no reason to backport things to 2.0.x if 2.2.x is out. If
there are any reliability problems with 2.2.x, they should be fixed,
rather than dropping back to 2.0.x and patching that.

Regards,

Richard....

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