Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 2004 02:55:39 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: New dev model (was [PATCH] delete devfs) |
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Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote: > > Changes that remove functionally like Greg's patch are hopefully > still 2.7 stuff - 2.6 is a stable kernel series and smooth upgrades > inside a stable kernel series are a must for many users.
I don't necessarily agree that such changes in the userspace interface should be tied to the kernel version number, really. That's a three or four year warning period, which is unreasonably long. Six to twelve months should be long enough for udev-based replacements to stabilise and propagate out into distributions.
That being said, mid-2005 would be an appropriate time to remove devfs. If that schedule pushes things along faster than they would otherwise have progressed, well, good.
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