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SubjectRe: post-halloween 0.2

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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