Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932269AbVIJI0u (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:26:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932272AbVIJI0u (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:26:50 -0400 Received: from nome.ca ([65.61.200.81]:60900 "HELO gobo.nome.ca") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932269AbVIJI0u (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:26:50 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 01:27:34 -0700 From: Mike Bell To: Greg KH Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.13 Message-ID: <20050910082732.GR13742@mikebell.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mike Bell , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050909214542.GA29200@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050909214542.GA29200@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 816 Lines: 16 On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 02:45:42PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > 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. Except that as I mentioned, it's broken by design. It creates yet another incompatible naming scheme for devices, and what's worse the devices it breaks are the ones like ALSA and the input subsystem, whose locations are hard-coded into libraries. Unless sysfs is going to get attributes from which the proper names could be derived, it won't ever work. - 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/