Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:56:17 -0700 | From | Deepak Saxena <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] delete devfs |
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On Jul 21 2004, at 17:19, Jesse Stockall was caught saying: > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 10:52, Greg KH wrote: > > > > And as Lars points out, the code is unmaintained, unused, and buggy. > > All good reasons to rip out it out at any moment in time. > > Unused? Since when does every Linux user use a vendor supplied kernel? I > have no use for devfs, never used it in the past, and I'm a happy udev > user now, but that doesn't change the fact that there are many devfs > users out there.
If the devfs user community really wants to keep using devfs, they can volunteer to maintain it as a separate project & patch.
> What does this gain us right now?
A single maintained solution/implementation for a given problem in the main tree. This is a good thing.
~Deepak
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