From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262374AbVFWFJO (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 01:09:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262375AbVFWFJO (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 01:09:14 -0400 Received: from ylpvm12-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.57.43]:478 "EHLO ylpvm12.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262374AbVFWFJC (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 01:09:02 -0400 X-ORBL: [69.107.32.110] From: David Brownell To: Linux Kernel list Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.12-git User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 Cc: Andrew Morton MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:08:58 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200506222208.58494.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Quoth Andrew Morton: > 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. The downside of "disable-and-remove-later" is that it becomes too easy to just re-enable the Kconfig stuff rather than just fixing the userspace bugs. Expecting userspace to change at any point before it absolutely _must_ tends to be a formula for userspace never changing, sadly enough. If 2.6.13 doesn't remove devfs, when will it really go away? - Dave