devfs - interesting news

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On 08/28/03 16:33, Joel Hammer wrote:

> This brings up the question. How did devfs get into the kernel with only
> one maintainer?

Have you looked at the MAINTAINERS file?  Just about everything has only a 
single maintainer.

> And, can we avoid its replacement and just go back to the bad old days?

That's a very strange way of saying thank $DEITY and good riddence to devfs.

> I believe lindows came precompiled with devfs, and of course, I wouldn't
> dream of compiling a lindows kernel without devfs, even if I could get
> the thing to compile, which I can't.

Use a real distro and perhaps you wouldn't have such problems.

> 
> Joel
> 
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 06:36:44PM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
>>Quoth Collins Richey:
>>
>>>As posted on the gentoo home page:
>>>
>>>Devfs was declared obsolete today in the 2.6-test kernel!?!
>>
>>On 16 August. The maintainer has vanished, or at least ceased 
>>responding to email: 
>>
>>http://lwn.net/Articles/44731/


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