Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.13 | From | Douglas McNaught <> | Date | Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:32:28 -0400 |
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Michael Thonke <iogl64nx@gmail.com> writes:
>>Here are the same "delete devfs" patches that I submitted for 2.6.12. >>It rips out all of devfs from the kernel and ends up saving a lot of >>space. Since 2.6.13 came out, I have seen no complaints about the fact >>that devfs was not able to be enabled anymore, and in fact, a lot of >>different subsystems have already been deleting devfs support for a >>while now, with apparently no complaints (due to the lack of users.) >> >> > How could users really say/complain what brakage they have, in fact they > don't even know the relationship between all that > ( e.g drivers -> devfs -> sysfs or other programs that rely on devfs)?
If you don't know that stuff, or aren't willing to learn and report bugs, don't run a kernel.org kernel--stick with your distro.
> Devfs is in for many years, why removing it in just some weeks?
It's been slated for removal for quite a while, and it was completely disabled in the last kernel release.
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