Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 2004 03:04:54 -0400 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: New dev model (was [PATCH] delete devfs) |
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:55:39AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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.
Users have had the 6-12 month warning about devfs for a while now :) And udev is currently available in the latest distro versions of: - Red Hat - SuSE - Gentoo - Debian - Mandrake
While devfs is only supported in Gentoo at this time (and udev fills that support issue for those users.)
> 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.
Ok, if people think that would really change anything, I'll wait a year. I'm patient :)
thanks,
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