Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 11:17:35 -0800
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Daniele Orlandi <daniele@orlandi.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: An idea on devfs vs. udev
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On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:51:01AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:41:32AM -0800, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 02:23:09PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:18:12AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> > > > But then to make matters worse, there is this "sample.sh" file.  UGH!
> > > > It's a bit of shell code exported by the kernel.
> > > >    #!/bin/sh
> > > >    mknod /dev/hda  b 3 0
> > > 
> > > That's just a "joke" patch that is only in the -mm tree, as it gets
> > > pulled in from my tree.  It's not in mainline, and will never go there.
> > 
> > Perhaps you can drop this horror now that Halloween has passed.
> 
> Heh.  But why?  Is it causing problems for anyone?

Someone else might take your joke seriously. Or worse yet, imitate it.
See C++.

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