On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:46 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Ok, now that devfs is removed from the 2.6 kernel tree[1], I think it's > time to start to revisit some of the /dev naming rules that we currently > are living with[2]. >
> [2] devfs vs. udev flames will dutifully be ignored. Give up, it will do > You no good to argue. My understanding was that we still support old 2.2 kernels for SPARC users as eradictor (iirc) posted a patch that only allowed iproute2 support if the kernel supported it. 2.6 kernels support it by default - were require /proc/net/netlink for iproute2. baselayout supports (and probably will indefinitely) ifconfig/net-tools et all This has absolutely zero to do with udev, but the point is that devfs vs udev "flames" cannot be ignored until non udev supported kernels from all arches are removed from the tree. SPARC may have udev supported kernels supported now - I don't know. But what I do know is that we have to support the lowest thing we have. Thanks Roy -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
