On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 05:40:53PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > On 01-01-06 Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 01:58:48PM +0100, Cosimo Alfarano wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 01:33:57PM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: > > > > Don't assume devfs! A lot of us uses it, but before our standard > > > > kernel uses it our lilo package shouldn't assume it unless it is very > > > > sure that it will work. > > > > > > He shouldn't assume it even if debian standard kernel package uses it. > > > A lot of users don't use them (both std kernel and devfs). > > > Especially since devfs support is still considered experimental. > > Hm, it's not marked as experimental in kernel 2.4.0, but as work in > progress. So support for it would be really good. mizar:[~/src/linux/2.4.0/linux] egrep 'VERSION|LEVEL' Makefile | head -3 VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 4 SUBLEVEL = 0 mizar:[~/src/linux/2.4.0/linux] grep -B 1 ^CONFIG_DEVFS_FS Documentation/Configure.help /dev file system support (EXPERIMENTAL) CONFIG_DEVFS_FS mizar:[~/src/linux/2.4.0/linux] grep ' CONFIG_DEVFS_FS ' fs/Config.in dep_bool '/dev file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_DEVFS_FS $CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL It will only show up if CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is defined. -- - mdz
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