Here are the same "delete devfs" patches that I submitted for 2.6.12.How could users really say/complain what brakage they have, in fact they
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 mean, how can you go wrong with deleting over 8000 lines of kernelRight, it's a good/right work to remove dispensable code from kernel.
code :)
So, please pull from:I think this is a bad solution because on the one hand you "force" to remove devfs due it's crappy
Please pull from:
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6.git/
or if master.kernel.org hasn't synced up yet:
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6.git/
I've posted all of these patches before, but if people really want to look at them, they can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-05-devfs/
Also, if people _really_ are in love with the idea of an in-kernel
devfs, I have posted a patch that does this in about 300 lines of code,
called ndevfs. It is available in the archives if anyone wants to use
that instead (it is quite easy to maintain that patch outside of the
kernel tree, due to it only needing 3 hooks into the main kernel tree.)
thanks,Thanks for your patience Greg
greg k-h