Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:25:35 -0400 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] delete devfs |
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 03:41:45PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > >Ok, to test out the new development model, here's a nice patch that > >simply removes the devfs code. No commercial distro supports this for > >2.6, and both Gentoo and Debian have full udev support for 2.6, so it is > >not needed there either. Combine this with the fact that Richard has > >sent me a number of good udev patches to fix up some "emulate devfs with > >udev" minor issues, I think we can successfully do this now. > > The new Debian installer requires devfs on several architectures, even > for 2.6 installs. That's unlikely to get changed before release.
Great, if you want to rely on this, and you get around to using a kernel that doesn't have it in it, just add it to the other patches you apply to your kernel.
thanks,
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