>>>>> "magallon" == J A Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

magallon> 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

magallon> Could you think on removing devfs from mdk kernels and
magallon> return to traditional /dev ?  As I have read in the kernel
magallon> mailing list, it is the biggest pile of crap in the kernel,
magallon> with nearly a bug per code line, giving all sort of lock
magallon> problems in SMP and so on...

By default, devfs is not activated anymore, if you don't have
devfs=mount option, it don't loads.  As if we are going to deactivate
it or not, I still dont' know.  Some people really like its
funtionalities, indeed if it is bad :(  As sugested in the list

Later, Juan.


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