Re: udev breakages -

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Oct 04 2012 - 13:42:53 EST


On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 10:29:51AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> There are still quite a few interesting cases that devtmpfs does not
> even think about supporting. Cases that were reported when devtmpfs was
> being reviewed.

Care to refresh my memory?

> Additionally the devtmpfs maintainership has not dealt with legitimate
> concerns any better than this firmware issue has been dealt with. I
> still haven't even hear a productive suggestion back on the hole
> /dev/ptmx mess.

I don't know how to handle the /dev/ptmx issue properly from within
devtmpfs, does anyone? Proposals are always welcome, the last time this
came up a week or so ago, I don't recall seeing any proposals, just a
general complaint.

thanks,

greg k-h
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