Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.13

[Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>]

On Sep 11, 2005, at 07:44:35, linux@horizon.com wrote:
>> I'll bite - what distros are shipping a kernel 2.6.10 or later and  
>> still
>> using devfs?
>
> Debian.  The current Debian installer is unfortunately rather tightly
> coupled to devfs; the reasons for choosing it are rooted in boot  
> floppy
> size, but the development ("unstable") install image uses 2.6.12 +  
> devfs.
>
> I just had to do a little dance to install it on a machine where
> 2.6.12 didn't recognize the SATA controller but 2.6.13 counldn't
> run the installer.
>
> Note that Debian doesn't need devfs in normal operation; it's just
> a bootstrapping tool.

That sounds like _exactly_ the case where the Debian folks could  
maintain
the out-of-tree ndevfs patch for a while until they got their installer
floppies and such migrated to udev.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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