[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: Best Desktop Patchset for kernel

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Hemmann, Volker Armin posted
<200510060853.56722.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>, excerpted
below,  on Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:53:56 +0200:

> [Greg KH] does not have to worry about udev anymore ;)

??

You aren't perhaps getting udev and devfs mixed up?  devfs was the 2.4
in-kernel stuff, not very flexible and with other issues so now dropped. 
udev is the 2.6 tech, to my knowledge very much alive, and GKH still very
much a *BIG* backer!  (He was the big push both behind the advance of
udev, and the drop of devfs, bringing up the devfs drop when udev was in,
being told it needed to stay in for at least a year, bringing it up,
apparently with very great pleasure, a year later, having it deactivated
but the code still there for a time, then bringing it up another couple
releases later to have the devfs code entirely removed from the kernel. 
That he was made "kernel lieutenant for devices" was in large part
because it seemed natural due to the fact he was dealing with them thru
udev anyway.)

If that's changed, /please/ point me to a reference!  I must have dropped
out of the loop somewhere!

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