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Subject: Re: devfs
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 10:46, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:25:35AM +0000, Ian Molton wrote:
>  > > 	Again, WE ARE IN FEATURE FREEZE.
>  > And since when did feature freeze affect, as the guy said, *purely*
>  > userspace implementations?
> 
>  Since it would a *feature* to move it out of kernel space.
>  To reiterate : _FEATURE_ _FREEZE_. Nothing[1] new[2]
>  should be going into mainline at this point.

Who cares. You can do most of it already with hotplug and the remaining
bits are very much "oops should tell hotplug" bug fixes nothing more.

Alan

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