On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2005 09:51, Armin Schindler wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> > > On Sunday 12 June 2005 04:44, Armin Schindler wrote:
> > > > It didn't follow the development, is devfs now obsolete in kernel?
> > > > If not, these funktions still makes sense.
> > > >
> > > Armin,
> > >
> > > From Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> > >
> > > What: devfs
> > > When: July 2005
> > > Files: fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h and assorted devfs
> > > function calls throughout the kernel tree
> > > Why: It has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable
> > > races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is
> > > against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev.
> > > Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > This should not a surprise to anyone...
> >
> > I know the status of devfs, but I never thought the removal will be
> > done in the middle of a stable line...
>
> Armin,
>
> Its all the same in 2.6 - the 2.odd.x development, 2.even.x stable model is no longer
> being used. The current Linus kernel is 2.6.11.12, where the last .12 is the latest
> 2.6.11 kernel with VIF (very important fixes) applied.
Yes, I know and I like this new model. But I didn't get the idea of changing
'major' things from e.g. 2.6.11 to 2.6.12.
Thanks for the explanation.
Armin
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