Bug#122738: boot-floppies can't handle devfs

2001-12-08 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Jacobowitz writes: >I'm not so confident. Particularly if you either include devfsd or do >not mount devfs, it should not change much beyond the occasional /proc >message. Never underestimate the fragility of the boot-floppies code base. There is a reason

Bug#122738: boot-floppies can't handle devfs

2001-12-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:17:33PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm pretty strongly opposed to this idea. > > Why? Because devfs is a useful feature, and I get the impression from debian-powerpc that many people are using it on PowerPC. I'm

Bug#122738: boot-floppies can't handle devfs

2001-12-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:33:05AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Unfortunately boot-floppies doens't currently support devfs. Colin > > found an issue with parsing of /proc/partitions, but I'm afraid > > that's probably just the tip of the iceburg.

Bug#122738: boot-floppies can't handle devfs

2001-12-07 Thread Colin Walters
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unfortunately boot-floppies doens't currently support devfs. Colin > found an issue with parsing of /proc/partitions, but I'm afraid > that's probably just the tip of the iceburg. Getting devfs support > into boot-floppies would set us back at least 2