Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:49:17PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> >
> > I do not want to sound like it has to be ignored - but devfs code is so messy
> > that no trivial fix exists that would not make code even more messy. So I
>
> sorry to interrupt, but wasn't there an ongoing
> efford to replace the devfs with smalldevfs or
> something even better? *hint*
>
Yes, but
a) It didn't have a compatible solution for the legacy device names
(/dev/hda, etc). Could have been fixed up in userspace but the work was
not done.
b) Certain parties youknowwhoyouare seem to have been stricken by smalldevfs
amnesia.
I'm hoping that smalldevfs comes back. The current thing is a running
sore.
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