From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262073AbVFUING (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:13:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261657AbVFUILx (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:11:53 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:21655 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261541AbVFUGy0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:54:26 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:54:03 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Greg KH Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.12-git Message-Id: <20050620235403.45bf9613.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050621062926.GB15062@kroah.com> References: <20050621062926.GB15062@kroah.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-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: > > Just in time for a July release, here's a patch series that removes > devfs from the kernel tree as promised. Whimper. Maybe we should cook this in -mm for a bit, get a feeling for how many users hate us, and how much? This is going to hurt: bix:/usr/src/25> grep -l devfs patches/*.patch patches/areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver-fix.patch patches/areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch patches/bk-ide-dev.patch patches/git-input.patch patches/git-mtd.patch patches/git-ocfs.patch patches/git-scsi-misc-drivers-scsi-chc-remove-devfs-stuff.patch patches/gregkh-driver-class-02-tty.patch patches/gregkh-driver-class-03-input.patch patches/gregkh-driver-class-05-sound.patch patches/gregkh-driver-class-06-block.patch patches/gregkh-driver-class-07-char.patch patches/gregkh-driver-class-08-ieee1394.patch patches/gregkh-driver-class-09-scsi.patch patches/gregkh-driver-class-11-drivers.patch patches/gregkh-driver-class-12-the_rest.patch patches/gregkh-driver-ipmi-class_simple-fixes.patch patches/gregkh-i2c-i2c-config_cleanup-01.patch patches/kdump-accessing-dump-file-in-linear-raw-format.patch patches/linus.patch patches/md-add-interface-for-userspace-monitoring-of-events.patch patches/md-optimised-resync-using-bitmap-based-intent-logging.patch patches/post-halloween-doc.patch patches/st-warning-fix.patch