Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.16 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:15:22 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 00:58 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 01:23:38PM -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.) > > I'm an occasional user. I'm just able to add a config entry by hand. > > Devfs for block devices is required for the fedora core 3 install > kernel.
that is not true; Fedora Core 3 does not even have devfs enabled, and neither RHL nor FC has shipped devfsd like forever
FC3 uses udev
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