Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:05:29 -0400 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] delete devfs |
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:53:37PM -0400, Jesse Stockall wrote: > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 17:27, Greg KH wrote: > > > > It fixes an obviously broken chunk of code that is not maintained by > > _anyone_. And it will clean up all device drivers a _lot_ to have this > > gone, which will benifit everyone in the long run. > > > > Agreed, but this 'broken' chunk of code is 'working' for a lot of people > (whether or not this is due to pure luck is not the point)
Pure luck.
> > As for "right now"? Why not? I'm just embracing the new development > > model of the kernel :) > > That's the point that Oliver and I raised, the "leave it till 2.7" (not > breaking things for real world users) argument seems stronger than the > "rip it now" (because it makes things cleaner, easier to code, etc) > argument.
The kernel development model (the whole stable/development tree thing) has changed based on the discussions at the kernel summit yesterday. See lwn.net for more details. That is why I sent this patch at this point in time.
thanks,
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