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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] minor devfs cleanup for 2.5.40
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On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:27:07AM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Those names *were* in mainline. They've been there all through 2.4.x.
> It's a useful feature that is *still* being used. Change this and lots
> of people will get a panic at boot because there root FS is "missing".

They have never been the devfs names in_any_ kernel.  Linus made you change
to saner names before merging devfs (saner code would also have been
a good idea, btw..).  Anyway, 2.5 is going to initramfs, so feel free
to put devfsd into your initramfs.

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