Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:32:38 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | [2.6 patch] document that udev isn't yet ready (fwd) |
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The trivial documentation patch forwarded below still applies (with a few lines offset) against 2.6.0-test9-mm4.
Please apply Adrian
----- Forwarded message from Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> -----
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 14:07:11 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> To: Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [2.6 patch] document that udev isn't yet ready
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:30:21AM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:51:27 +0000, Greg KH wrote: > > And remember, _I_ did not submit that patch to the kernel marking devfs > > obsolete. Other kernel developers did. And for good reasons, which > > have all been explained before. Even if udev wasn't even written yet, > > it would have been done. > > "Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev," > > Most people expect after reading that sentence, that udev can do the > work devfs did for them. But udev is not ready to do that, even by > far. Thats why people complain. >...
The following trivial change to te help text should clarify it:
--- linux-2.6.0-test6-mm4/fs/Kconfig.old 2003-10-08 14:02:15.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.0-test6-mm4/fs/Kconfig 2003-10-08 14:03:33.000000000 +0200 @@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ ptys, you will also need to enable (and mount) the /dev/pts filesystem (CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS). - Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev, + Note that devfs will be obsoleted by udev <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/>. It has been stripped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for legacy installations that use its naming scheme which is
> Regards, Andreas
cu Adrian
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