Re: State of devfs in 2.6?

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 10:46:32 EST


On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:36:26PM +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> Whats the general feeling about devfs now? I remember Christoph and others
> making some nasty remarks about it 6months ago or so, but later noted
> christoph doing some slashing and burning thereof.
> Is it 'nice' yet?
> Andrew Walrond

I would say it's deprecated at the very least. sysfs and udev are
supposed to provide equivalent functionality, albeit by a somewhat
different mechanism.


-- wli
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