From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:43:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:43:37 -0500 Received: from packet.digeo.com ([12.110.80.53]:14515 "EHLO packet.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:43:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:50:32 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "Adam J. Richter" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alistair@devzero.co.uk, cloos@jhcloos.com, elenstev@mesatop.com, jordan.breeding@attbi.com, maneesh@in.ibm.com, scole@lanl.gov, solarce@fallingsnow.net Subject: Re: Patch: 2.5.62 devfs shrink Message-Id: <20030225135032.7c9663da.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <200302251023.CAA01067@adam.yggdrasil.com> References: <200302251023.CAA01067@adam.yggdrasil.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Feb 2003 21:53:40.0508 (UTC) FILETIME=[5B928DC0:01C2DD18] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Adam J. Richter" wrote: > > Here is an update to my patch to shrink devfs for linux-2.5.62. Adam, could you please provide a description of the incompatibilities between this implementation and the present one? For both kernel and userspace. And would you also please provide a list of operations which people need to perform to migrate existing setups to the new code. And should I drop the below patch? diff -puN init/do_mounts.c~devfs-fix init/do_mounts.c --- 25/init/do_mounts.c~devfs-fix 2003-01-16 19:39:56.000000000 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/init/do_mounts.c 2003-01-16 19:39:56.000000000 -0800 @@ -853,11 +853,6 @@ void prepare_namespace(void) { int is_floppy; -#ifdef CONFIG_DEVFS_FS - sys_mount("devfs", "/dev", "devfs", 0, NULL); - do_devfs = 1; -#endif - md_run_setup(); if (saved_root_name[0]) { _