On Wednesday 06 July 2005 07:06 pm, Roy Marples wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:46 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Ok, now that devfs is removed from the 2.6 kernel tree[1], I think it's
> > time to start to revisit some of the /dev naming rules that we currently
> > are living with[2].
> >
> >
> > [2] devfs vs. udev flames will dutifully be ignored.  Give up, it will do
> >     You no good to argue.
>
> My understanding was that we still support old 2.2 kernels for SPARC
> users as eradictor (iirc) posted a patch that only allowed iproute2
> support if the kernel supported it. 2.6 kernels support it by default  -
> were require /proc/net/netlink for iproute2.

and eventually i'd like to get m68k into the 2.2 kernels ...

> This has absolutely zero to do with udev, but the point is that devfs vs
> udev "flames" cannot be ignored until non udev supported kernels from
> all arches are removed from the tree.

i dont see how 2.2 kernels matter since they dont even support devfs ?
-mike
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