To: Michael Thonke <iogl64nx@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.13
References: <20050909214542.GA29200@kroah.com> <4322A160.1060809@gmail.com>
From: Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:32:28 -0400
In-Reply-To: <4322A160.1060809@gmail.com> (Michael Thonke's message of "Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:03:28 +0200")
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Michael Thonke <iogl64nx@gmail.com> writes:

>>Here are the same "delete devfs" patches that I submitted for 2.6.12.
>>It rips out all of devfs from the kernel and ends up saving a lot of
>>space.  Since 2.6.13 came out, I have seen no complaints about the fact
>>that devfs was not able to be enabled anymore, and in fact, a lot of
>>different subsystems have already been deleting devfs support for a
>>while now, with apparently no complaints (due to the lack of users.)
>>  
>>
> How could users really say/complain what brakage they have, in fact they
> don't even know the relationship between all that
> ( e.g drivers -> devfs -> sysfs or other programs that rely on devfs)?

If you don't know that stuff, or aren't willing to learn and report
bugs, don't run a kernel.org kernel--stick with your distro.

> Devfs is in for many years, why removing it in just some weeks?

It's been slated for removal for quite a while, and it was completely
disabled in the last kernel release.

-Doug
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