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    SubjectRe: State of devfs in 2.6?
    On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 08:02:19AM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
    > On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 00:34, Greg KH wrote:
    > > You have 15 floppy devices connected to your box? All floppy devices
    > > should show up in /sys/block.
    >
    > No, 16 devices are normal, sysfs has only one:
    > aj@simulacron:~/torrent/j-tv/download$ ls /dev/floppy/
    > 0 0u1120 0u1600 0u1722 0u1760 0u1920 0u720 0u820
    > 0u1040 0u1440 0u1680 0u1743 0u1840 0u360 0u800 0u830
    > aj@simulacron:~/torrent/j-tv/download$ find /sys/block/fd* -name dev
    > /sys/block/fd0/dev
    >
    > Are those floppy devices obsolete? fdformat was the only app to use
    > them anyway, I guess. (Not that I use my floppy, I simply noticed
    > the change.)
    >
    > > > I wouldn't call udev deprecated, unless a newer kernel has the
    > > > essential devices, too.
    > >
    > > You mean s/udev/devfs/ right? :)
    >
    > oops, sorry.
    >
    > > > and
    > > > re-introducing makedev for devices not represented
    > > > in sysfs doesn't sound very nice either. So 2.8.* might be a nice time
    > > > frame for dropping devfs, or at least give sysfs and udev a few months
    > > > to catch up on the issues mentioned.
    > >
    > > Regardless of the state of udev, devfs has insolvable problems and you
    > > should not use it. End of story.
    >
    > how many bug reports did you see in the last three months of people
    > having problems with devfs? I don't doubt the problems in theory, but
    > but I simply haven't seen them happening. Most users seem quite happy.
    >

    Actually, I think most users who have problems just disable devfs. Most of
    the people I know have done that. No point in making bug reports about
    something that is unmaintained and deprecated.

    --
    Murray J. Root

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