From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266640AbUGVHUk (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 03:20:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266821AbUGVHUk (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 03:20:40 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:18128 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266640AbUGVHUf (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 03:20:35 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 03:19:23 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Greg KH Cc: bunk@fs.tum.de, corbet@lwn.net, bgerst@didntduck.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New dev model (was [PATCH] delete devfs) Message-Id: <20040722031923.654258e3.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040722070453.GA21907@kroah.com> References: <40FEEEBC.7080104@quark.didntduck.org> <20040721231123.13423.qmail@lwn.net> <20040721235228.GZ14733@fs.tum.de> <20040722025539.5d35c4cb.akpm@osdl.org> <20040722070453.GA21907@kroah.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:55:39AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Adrian Bunk 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 :) No, they had a three year warning. "It'll be gone in 2.8". > Ok, if people think that would really change anything, I'll wait a year. > I'm patient :) Delete 100 lines per week ;)