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Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
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> I still hope Adam's smalldevfs will get merged anyway..

Well me too, but smalldevfs is a bit stalled at present.

It seems to work OK now, but there are a few small incompatibilities with the
current devfs.  People need to make adjustments to their initscripts, or to
untar a tarball-of-device-nodes into smalldevfs at boot time.

Like all other kernel developers I do not use devfs and am not really able to
evaluate how serious these problems will be for people.

Adam is disinclined to address these administrative incompatibilites in his
user-space tools.  smalldevfs is presently at risk of getting dropped out.



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