Sylvain: > btw, if not yet integrated you should send your patch to Wolfang, he's > the one maintaining that tree.
Wolfgang: > I've seen the patch, but did not decide yet what to do with it. Many > drivers don't support devfs anyway, and in my opinion devfs makes > little sense in embedded systems anyway. Not to mention that it will > officially be removed from the kernel tree in less than 4 weeks from > now (see Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt). This is nonsense. You know, when I made this patch I said to myself, "Self, you're wasting your time, these guys won't take patches from somebody they don't know" But I thought it was enough of a no-brainer that it might go through. Seems I was wrong. Mark Chambers