From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262459AbVFUXD6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:03:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262424AbVFUXDD (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:03:03 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:39049 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262459AbVFUW7y (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:59:54 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:59:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20050621.155919.85409752.davem@davemloft.net> To: gregkh@suse.de Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] devfs: remove devfs from Kconfig preventing it from being built From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20050621222419.GA23896@kroah.com> References: <20050621222419.GA23896@kroah.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) 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 From: Greg KH Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:24:19 -0700 > Here's a much smaller patch to simply disable devfs from the build. If > this goes well, and there are no complaints for a few weeks, I'll resend > my big "devfs-die-die-die" series of patches that rip the whole thing > out of the kernel tree. > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman I know the rational behind this. However, this does mean I do need to reinstall a couple debian boxes here to something newer before I can continue doing kernel work in 2.6.x on them.