From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267734AbUHJUkx (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:40:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267725AbUHJUkx (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:40:53 -0400 Received: from ezoffice.mandrakesoft.com ([212.11.15.34]:35221 "EHLO office.mandrakesoft.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267724AbUHJUjV (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:39:21 -0400 To: kernel@mandrakesoft.com Cc: "lkml " , nplanel@mandrakesoft.com, tmb@mandrake.org Subject: Re: [Kernel] Re: New dev model X-URL: From: Thierry Vignaud Organization: Mandrakesoft Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:39:16 +0200 In-Reply-To: <14610.1090502271@www50.gmx.net> (Svetoslav Slavtchev's message of "Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:17:51 +0200 (MEST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Svetoslav Slavtchev" writes: > once again, sorry for this way of replying, > could you keep me CC'd as i'm not subscribed to lkml (...) > That could be done by sending in smaller patches that remove devfs > calls from drivers. If nothing in the kernel is using devfs, then > there is no reason to keep it around anymore... well actually removing such bits from dac960.c and cciss.c would restore devfs support for them :-( > please don't do it /*at least not in the following two months :-)*/ > > what does this buy us ? > > once again about the upcoming Mandrake 10.1, we already have readded > devfs support to isdn, should we start tracking bk-head for such > patches that remove devfs support from drivers and revert them ? > should we stay with 2.6.7 (or eventually 2.6.8)? there is really no > time to integarate/test udev as replacement of devfs for the next > release. the odds're high we'll go out with udev by default. it works smoothly for most devices (dvb and a few others seems missing but patches are pending). drakx installer is know fully aware of it (as of today's cvs)