Re: initrd, lvm, and devfs
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:34:06AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt in 2.6.11-rc1:
>
> What: devfs
> When: July 2005
> Files: fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h and assorted devfs
> function calls throughout the kernel tree
> Why: It has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable
> function calls throughout the kernel tree
> Why: It has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable
> races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is
> against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev.
> Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
>
> so unless Debian wants to stay with stoneage kernels you're better of
> starting to fix D-I. That beeing said D-I people have been told
> repeatedly that basing an installer on devfs is a bad idea long time
> ago, but let's not warm that up again.
*shrug* Changing d-i to use udev instead of devfs when building 2.6
images is almost trivial; I did it for Ubuntu with very little pain.
We'll land this change straight after sarge.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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