On 6/9/05, Mark Chambers <markc at mail.com> wrote: > 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. > Don't take things too personally. (I understand where you're coming from; I'm virtually unknown around here also). You have to remember that devfs is pretty much considered to be a bastard stepchild and there is a lot of negative opinion surrounding it. Because of that it is very hard to get *any* devfs patches to be considered.
Just posting your patch on the ML is important and valuable. That makes things easy when somebody else has the same problem. I certainly remember seeing your original post, and I made note of it for if I ever see that problem. Cheers, g.
