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Hemmann, Volker Armin posted |
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<200510060853.56722.volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>, excerpted |
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below, on Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:53:56 +0200: |
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> [Greg KH] does not have to worry about udev anymore ;) |
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You aren't perhaps getting udev and devfs mixed up? devfs was the 2.4 |
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in-kernel stuff, not very flexible and with other issues so now dropped. |
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udev is the 2.6 tech, to my knowledge very much alive, and GKH still very |
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much a *BIG* backer! (He was the big push both behind the advance of |
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udev, and the drop of devfs, bringing up the devfs drop when udev was in, |
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being told it needed to stay in for at least a year, bringing it up, |
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apparently with very great pleasure, a year later, having it deactivated |
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but the code still there for a time, then bringing it up another couple |
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releases later to have the devfs code entirely removed from the kernel. |
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That he was made "kernel lieutenant for devices" was in large part |
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because it seemed natural due to the fact he was dealing with them thru |
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udev anyway.) |
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If that's changed, /please/ point me to a reference! I must have dropped |
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out of the loop somewhere! |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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