On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:19:39AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Without devfs the syntax of e.g. /proc/partitions changes and anything > parsing those files needs to adapt back to the old syntax. That was a bad bug in Linux 2.4 and has been fixed in Linux 2.6 already, there even devfs kernels use normal output everywhere.