Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.12-git

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Mike Bell <kernel@mikebell.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 08:10:19AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > There might be some complaints.  But I doubt they would be from anyone
> > running a -mm tree as those people kind of know the current status of
> > things in the kernel.  There have been numerous warnings as to the fact
> > that this was going away, and I waited a _year_ to do this.
> 
> I use -mm and I'm complaining.

Thanks!

> It breaks a lot of my embedded setups which have read-only storage only
> and thus need /dev on devfs or tmpfs.

Well that's quite a problem.  We're certainly causing people such as
yourself to take on quite a lot of work.  But on the other hand we do want
the kernel to progress sanely, and that sometimes involves taking things
out.

I don't have enough info to know whether the world would be a better place
if we keep devfs, remove devfs or remove devfs even later on.  I don't
think anyone knows, which is why we're taking this little
disable-it-and-see-who-shouts approach.