On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:12:41PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> Quoting Greg KH <[email protected]>:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:03:56PM +0200, Eric Valette wrote:
> > > For years now my /dev has been empty. When upgrading to 2.6.13-rc1 from
> > > 2.6.12, and updating my kernel config file via "make oldconfig" I got no
> > > visible warning about CONFIG_DEVFS_FS options being set (or at least did
> > > no see it).
> >
> > devfs has been marked OBSOLETE for a year now. It has also been
> > documented as going away. Because of this, you should not have been
> > supprised at all.
>
> I knew it! I just the announce for 2.6.13-rc1 did not contain this fact and I
> did not realize booting this new kernel will fail on my machine which is bad for
> a stable serie.
As there is no longer a "development series" calling 2.6 a "stable
series" isn't really true :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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