Re: [gentoo-dev] devfs is dead, let's move on

[Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>]

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

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