On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:23:38 -0800 Greg KH wrote:
> They are the same "delete devfs" patches that I submitted for 2.6.12 and
> 2.6.13 and 2.6.14 and 2.6.15. 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.)
>
> It's also been over 8 months past the date when we said we would delete
> devfs from the kernel tree in the file,
> Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt, and over one and one half
> years since we publicly announced to the world that devfs would be
> removed from the kernel tree. So, I think people have had plenty of
> advance notice that this was going to happen by now :)
>
> Please pull from:
> rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6.git/
> or if master.kernel.org hasn't synced up yet:
> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6.git/
>
> I've posted all of these patches before, but if people really want to look at them, they can be found at:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-05-devfs/
>
> Also, if people _really_ are in love with the idea of an in-kernel
> devfs, I have posted a patch that does this in about 300 lines of code,
> called ndevfs. It is available in the archives if anyone wants to use
> that instead (it is quite easy to maintain that patch outside of the
> kernel tree, due to it only needing 3 hooks into the main kernel tree.)
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
>
> Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl | 5
> Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ChangeLog | 1977 ---------------
> Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README | 1959 ---------------
> Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ToDo | 40
> Documentation/filesystems/devfs/boot-options | 65
More Documentation/ references to /devfs/i :
Changes
computone.txt
feature-removal-schedule.txt
initrd.txt
ioctl-number.txt
kernel-docs.txt
kernel-parameters.txt
README.DAC960
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~Randy
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