Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:27:07 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: [BK PATCH] minor devfs cleanup for 2.5.40 |
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Christoph Hellwig writes: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:17:34AM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote: > > Greg KH writes: > > > Here's a changeset from Christoph Hellwig that removes some unneeded > > > code from the kernel core. This was leftover from before devfs became > > > part of the main kernel tree, and was trying to do some naming fixups in > > > kernelspace. If anyone still has machines using these names, their > > > startup scripts should be modified to use the "standard" devfs names. > > > > > > Please pull from: http://linuxusb.bkbits.net/devfs-2.5 > > > > NO! Dammit, you'll break everyone who is using these compact names to > > mount the root FS. Look more closely at the code you're trying to > > remove, and you'll see it's *not* used to avoid work in startup > > scripts. It's only used to create the devfs entry for the root FS. > > This is 2.5 and those names were never in mainline. Use your new > devfs names or plain linux names or just hex numbers. Linux is > not a place were we keep junk around.
Those names *were* in mainline. They've been there all through 2.4.x. It's a useful feature that is *still* being used. Change this and lots of people will get a panic at boot because there root FS is "missing".
Regards,
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