Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.13

From: Martin Schlemmer
Date: Mon Sep 12 2005 - 03:02:26 EST


On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 07:02 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 12:20:06AM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> > >I'll bite - what distros are shipping a kernel 2.6.10 or later and still
> > >using devfs?
> > >
> > I'll admit I don't keep track of the distros and what kernels and features
> > they are useing. I think I've heard people mention gentoo, but I
> > haven't verified this.
>

Why do people always remember us as using devfs, instead of being one of
the first distro's supporting it (if not the first) ? :( I already
added support for udev to the initscripts back in Sep 2003, and added
the udev-0.2 package to the tree in Oct 2003.

> Nope, not Gentoo --- Greg KH fixed gentoo a while ago. :-)
>

Not entirely true, but he did start to maintain the udev package around
udev-022.


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Martin Schlemmer

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