Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:13:20 -0800 (PST) | From | Patrick Mochel <> | Subject | Re: post-halloween 0.2 |
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On 30 Oct 2002, Ian Soboroff wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes: > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:47:19PM -0500, Ian Soboroff wrote: > > > Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> writes: > > > > > > > driverfs > > > > ~~~~~~~~ > > > > [...] > > > > *NB*, at some point the name of this filesystem will be changing to sysfs. > > > > See Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt for more info. > > > > > > Probably have to wait until we push the rock up the hill again. > > > > What do you mean? This should happen in the next few kernel releases. > > sysfs == Sisyphus, a character of Greek mythology doomed by the gods > to roll a boulder up a hill for all time. When he gets to the top, it > rolls back down.
sysfs != Sisyphus. They are coincidental hominems.
> Kind of like fixing /proc. <ducks>
Recall also that (Feature Freeze != Code Freeze). There will be a lot of cleanup and conversion happening the next few months, from old school driver models to the new driver models, and the population of a sane sysfs layout.
driverfs will hopefully die today. Stay tuned..
-pat
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