On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Mark Chambers wrote: >> >> probably should send this to the main kernel list, but in playing >> around, i noticed that DEVFS_FS is labelled as both OBSOLETE and NEW, >> but in the Kconfig file, it depends on EXPERIMENTAL. >> >> it seems a bit inconsistent for anything to be simultaneously >> EXPERIMENTAL, NEW and OBSOLETE, no? >> > > I found the following in udev-FAQ: > > Q: Why was devfs marked OBSOLETE if udev is not finished yet? > A: To quote Al Viro (Linux VFS kernel maintainer): > - it was determined that the same thing could be done in userspace > - devfs had been shoved into the tree in hope that its quality will > catch up > - devfs was found to have fixable and unfixable bugs > - the former had stayed around for many months with maintainer > claiming that everything works fine > - the latter had stayed, period. > - the devfs maintainer/author disappeared and stoped maintaining > the code.
oh, i knew devfs was on its way out, i was just curious about it being labelled as EXPERIMENTAL, NEW and OBSOLETE all at the same time. what's the story on proposed udev support some day? rday ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
