Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264538AbTEKAZW (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 May 2003 20:25:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264539AbTEKAZW (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 May 2003 20:25:22 -0400 Received: from 60.54.252.64.snet.net ([64.252.54.60]:38865 "EHLO jaymale.blue-labs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264538AbTEKAZV (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 May 2003 20:25:21 -0400 Message-ID: <3EBD9B1E.6050304@blue-labs.org> Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 20:36:46 -0400 From: David Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030509 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David van Hoose CC: Norbert Wolff , Andy Pfiffer , lkml Subject: Re: [RFC] devfs [was Re: ALSA busted in 2.5.69] References: <3EBBF00D.8040108@hotmail.com> <1052507530.15922.37.camel@andyp.pdx.osdl.net> <20030510080440.3446cc96.norbert_wolff@t-online.de> <3EBD8941.7070403@blue-labs.org> <3EBD9560.8060504@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <3EBD9560.8060504@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1006 Lines: 33 I've used devfs for years. A few people here and there gripe about it, my only gripe about it are drivers that don't [haven't yet] been updated to use it. In 2.5 those are rare. As to 2.4 vs 2.5, there aren't too many user visible changes and I think most of the new things for devfs (user visible) in 2.5 are also in 2.4. My vote: devfs is _great_ David David van Hoose wrote: > David Ford wrote: > >> Shrug :) >> >> I use devfs, all is magic. All is [nearly always] correct. > > > Are there any compatibility issues in 2.4 while using devfs under 2.5? > I'm looking into it, but I'd like to hear that there are no problems > before I jump into using it. > I would love to hear comments from anyone using devfs. Good or bad. > > Thanks, > David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/