Am 13.01.2012 00:17, schrieb Tom Gundersen: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote: >> Compat with exactly what? It isn't like our low-level userspace stays >> the same for longer than someone can blink anyways, so seems stupid to >> keep this around considering other things break random hooks anyway. > > I simply could not find the users of it ('git grep devtmpfs' gave me > nothing), so didn't want to just rip it out. If someone else wants to > do it I wouldn't object... > > -t
This was used in poll_device in earlier versions (no idea what Dave did to it). The logic was: Only wait for a device if either udev is used, or devtmpfs is mounted. Otherwise, devices won't magically show up if we wait, so there is no point in waiting. I don't remember any other users.
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