[ltp] Alan Cox 2.4 PnP BIOS kernels

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:57:51 +0100


On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 22:59:00 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:

[...]

> unpainful.  The biggest PITA was reverting from a devfs system
> to a traditional /dev/ directory, but most people won't have to
> go through that because they never adopted devfs.

Why revert from devfs? I know it has been declared deprecated in 2.6,
but AFAIK the kernel developers decieded to not drop devfs support
until sysfs/udev is stable and wide spread. I just continued to use
devfs with 2.6 without problems.

Regards,
Tino