Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Dec 2003 02:13:03 -0500 | From | "Murray J. Root" <> | Subject | Re: State of devfs in 2.6? |
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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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