Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:58:46 +0100
From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.16
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 01:23:38PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> They are the same "delete devfs" patches that I submitted for 2.6.12 and
> 2.6.13 and 2.6.14 and 2.6.15.  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.)

I'm an occasional user.  I'm just able to add a config entry by hand.

Devfs for block devices is required for the fedora core 3 install
kernel.  I haven't checked whether fc4 needs it too (DaveJ?), but if
it is the case it would be a real bad idea to remove it before fc6 is
out.

I know, I know, compatibility is for the weak.

  OG.

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