On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Alejandro Mery wrote:

> linux2.6.0-test9/fs/Kconfig:
> config DEVFS_FS
> bool "/dev file system support (OBSOLETE)"
> depends on EXPERIMENTAL
>
> any lkml reader can explain that to me?

devfs will be removed in future major kernel versions (2.8 or 3.0,
whatever it will be) and replaced by a sysfs based userland thing called
udev (which is still pretty experimental right now).

That fits perfectly into the ROCK 2.1 roadmap which includes support for
various /dev layouts (static, dyn. using devfs and dyn. using udev).

Imo devfs should stay in the kernel (because it is a great feature and
very usefull in the userland) and the implementation (which is a bit
overloaded) should be fixed. However: as always there are other opinions
out there too .. ;-)

yours,

 - clifford

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