Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932214AbWCUAFg (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:05:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751369AbWCUAFg (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:05:36 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:57569 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751354AbWCUAFf (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:05:35 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:05:16 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Olivier Galibert , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.16 Message-ID: <20060321000516.GA3411@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Olivier Galibert , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060320212338.GA11571@kroah.com> <20060320235846.GA84147@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060320235846.GA84147@dspnet.fr.eu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1115 Lines: 25 On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 12:58:46AM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > 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.) > > Devfs for block devices is required for the fedora core 3 install > kernel. I haven't checked whether fc4 needs it too (DaveJ?) Hell no. It's never been included in any Fedora release. Make it dead already. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - 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/