Michael Thonke <[email protected]> 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.
-Doug
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