Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751610AbWCUMsB (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:48:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751611AbWCUMsB (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:48:01 -0500 Received: from dspnet.fr.eu.org ([213.186.44.138]:55820 "EHLO dspnet.fr.eu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751609AbWCUMsA (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:48:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:47:55 +0100 From: Olivier Galibert To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.16 Message-ID: <20060321124755.GA83095@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Olivier Galibert , Arjan van de Ven , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com References: <20060320212338.GA11571@kroah.com> <20060320235846.GA84147@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <1142925322.3077.12.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1142925322.3077.12.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.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: 1439 Lines: 32 On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 08:15:22AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 00:58 +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.) > > > > 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. > > that is not true; Fedora Core 3 does not even have devfs enabled, and > neither RHL nor FC has shipped devfsd like forever > > FC3 uses udev The _install_ kernel does not use udev. It uses a mix of static /dev and whatever it is which creates the block devices, but after checking is not devfs after all, sorry about the mistake. OG. - 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/