Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:32:30 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.16 |
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:23:38 -0800 Greg KH wrote:
> They are the same "delete devfs" patches that I submitted for 2.6.12 and > 2.6.13 and 2.6.14 and 2.6.15. 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.) > > It's also been over 8 months past the date when we said we would delete > devfs from the kernel tree in the file, > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt, and over one and one half > years since we publicly announced to the world that devfs would be > removed from the kernel tree. So, I think people have had plenty of > advance notice that this was going to happen by now :) > > 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, > > greg k-h > > > Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl | 5 > Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ChangeLog | 1977 --------------- > Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README | 1959 --------------- > Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ToDo | 40 > Documentation/filesystems/devfs/boot-options | 65
More Documentation/ references to /devfs/i :
Changes computone.txt feature-removal-schedule.txt initrd.txt ioctl-number.txt kernel-docs.txt kernel-parameters.txt README.DAC960
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