From: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:48:05 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.13
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On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Greg KH wrote:

> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 14:45:42 -0700
> From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.13
> 
> 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.)

do you really think that there have been that many people who have shifted 
to 2.6.13 in less then 2 weeks since release?

I know that you take personal offense to this code existing, but Andrew 
pointed out when you proposed these patches before that we need to be 
acareful here

David Lang
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