Re: devfs 199.17 not in 2.4 (was Re:2.4.22 devfs/zlib outstanding updates ...)

["Frédéric L. W. Meunier" <1@pervalidus.net>]

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>
> > Herbert Pötzl wrote on Sat, 12 Jul 2003 00:22:07 +0200
> >
> > > just wanted to remind/state that the final? v199.17 devfs
> > > patch and the 1.1.4 zlib update are not in 2.4.22-pre5.
> >
> > About the devfs patch.
> >
> > Yes, I already reported it a long time ago -
> > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0306.2/1655.html
> > and have no idea why it hasn't been merged in 2.4, after all
> > it's supposed to fix some things and there have been no changes
> > since then in the kernel.
> >
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103474534430016&w=2
> >
> > Can someone clarify this ? I've been applying this patch since
> > its release and it didn't broke anything.
>
> Oi Frederic,
>
> Richard Gooch used to send me updates a long time ago.
>
> What are the bugs this new releases are fixing?

E aí Marcelo.

It isn't a new release, really. It's his last patch, released
16 October 2002. All earlier were merged.

I don't know what it fixes besides what's listed at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103474534430016&w=2
. Probably that's all.

He's the expert, but I recall he told me there were important
fixes, and I've been using it since then without any noticeable
problems on all later 2.4 kernels. It only changes code in
fs/devfs/base.c and include/linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h.

I'm just surprised it never made into. Maybe Al Viro or Andrey
Borzenkov will want to review it :-)

And Andrey (he's cleaning up devfs in 2.6) may be able to tell
you if
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-25/0100.html
is still needed.

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