From: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
To: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: devfs going away, last chance to complain (was Re: [GIT PATCH] Driver Core patches for 2.6.15)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 04:18:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6AAE697F-67B0-4976-B7D1-A87C441F4490@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43BCCE69.1020509@uplinklabs.net>
On Jan 05, 2006, at 02:44, Steven Noonan wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance, but what precisely was/is the problem with
> devfs, anyway?
1) It had unfixable races (The device is created when the hardware
is detected but the module isn't loaded yet so the device doesn't work?)
2) The maintainer stopped maintaining it
3) It put naming policy (and a bad one at that) in the kernel where
it doesn't belong.
I'm sure there are more, but those are the basic ones.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-05 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-05 0:48 [GIT PATCH] Driver Core patches for 2.6.15 Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] remove CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT option Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] remove mount/umount uevents from superblock handling Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] keep pnpbios usermod_helper away from hotplug_path[] Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] add uevent_helper control in /sys/kernel/ Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] merge kobject_uevent and kobject_hotplug Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent" Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] driver kill hotplug word from sn and others fix Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] HOTPLUG: always enable the .config option, unless EMBEDDED Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] Hold the device's parent's lock during probe and remove Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] Allow overlapping resources for platform devices Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] klist: Fix broken kref counting in find functions Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] kobject_uevent CONFIG_NET=n fix Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] Input: add modalias support Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] ide: MODALIAS support for autoloading of ide-cd, ide-disk, Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] Driver core: Make block devices create the proper symlink name Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] Driver core: only all userspace bind/unbind if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is enabled Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] Driver Core: Add platform_device_del() Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] Driver Core: Rearrange exports in platform.c Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] Input: fix add modalias support build error Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] sysfs: handle failures in sysfs_make_dirent Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] drivers/base/power/runtime.c: #if 0 dpm_set_power_state() Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:49 ` [PATCH] net: swich device attribute creation to default attrs Greg KH
2006-01-05 1:38 ` [GIT PATCH] Driver Core patches for 2.6.15 Linus Torvalds
2006-01-05 2:07 ` Greg KH
2006-01-05 2:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-05 3:31 ` Greg KH
2006-01-05 3:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-05 3:44 ` devfs going away, last chance to complain (was Re: [GIT PATCH] Driver Core patches for 2.6.15) Greg KH
2006-01-05 7:44 ` Steven Noonan
2006-01-05 9:17 ` Andrew Walrond
2006-01-05 9:18 ` Kyle Moffett [this message]
2006-01-05 14:04 ` [GIT PATCH] Driver Core patches for 2.6.15 John Stoffel
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