le mer 31-10-2001 at 08:50 Blue Lizard a �crit : > On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 19:01, J . A . Magallon wrote: > > > > On 20011031 Juan Quintela wrote: > > >--=-=-= > > >Name : kernel Relocations: (not relocateable) > > >Version : 2.4.13 Vendor: MandrakeSoft > > >Release : 2mdk Build Date: Tue Oct 30 16:28:41 2001 > > > > Could you think on removing devfs from mdk kernels and return to traditional /dev ? > > As I have read in the kernel mailing list, it is the biggest pile of crap in > > the kernel, with nearly a bug per code line, giving all sort of lock problems > > in SMP and so on...
do you have a thread about this ? I'm willing to read this ( kernel ML traffic is to huge and there's no discussion about that in lastest kernel-traffic ). Time for a great debate concerning devfs implementation in the kernel ? > It was a major change incorporating this and I doubt our beloved kernel > maintainers would be quick to change back. If you have personal > experiences, use devfs=nomount at boot prompt (append to lilo or put in > grub to make it default 0x0). Besides, I just went back to using it > today after long long hiatas :). I always use it since it incorpaoration in cooker kernel. Except for nvidia devices I never have problem. And fortunately for nvidia it's easy to fix. > Yes, it can be a bother, but it would look _so_ M$-ish to put it in for > 8.1 and back out for 8.2 (sorry, been dealing with having to support > upgrading winusers here). Even if there's many problems mandrakesoft should keep using devfs. Devfs is a great thing use by some BSD and Unices that need test under Linux. By its works, Mandrakesoft, the first mainstream distribution that int�grate devfs, help to improve devfs. Maybe a closer cooperation with the devfs maintainer will help to fix bugs and improve this. -- http://perso.wanadoo.fr/linux_wizard/index.html - Quand je pense que ma pr�sence ici-bas n'est due qu'a deux personnes qui se sont envoy�es en l'air, je deviens philosophe. SIM
