Re: [BK PATCH] minor devfs cleanup for 2.5.40

[Richard Gooch]

Christoph Hellwig writes:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:17:34AM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > Greg KH writes:
> > > Here's a changeset from Christoph Hellwig that removes some unneeded
> > > code from the kernel core.  This was leftover from before devfs became
> > > part of the main kernel tree, and was trying to do some naming fixups in
> > > kernelspace.  If anyone still has machines using these names, their
> > > startup scripts should be modified to use the "standard" devfs names.
> > > 
> > > Please pull from:  http://linuxusb.bkbits.net/devfs-2.5
> > 
> > NO! Dammit, you'll break everyone who is using these compact names to
> > mount the root FS. Look more closely at the code you're trying to
> > remove, and you'll see it's *not* used to avoid work in startup
> > scripts. It's only used to create the devfs entry for the root FS.
> 
> This is 2.5 and those names were never in mainline.  Use your new
> devfs names or plain linux names or just hex numbers.  Linux is
> not a place were we keep junk around.

Those names *were* in mainline. They've been there all through 2.4.x.
It's a useful feature that is *still* being used. Change this and lots
of people will get a panic at boot because there root FS is "missing".

				Regards,

					Richard....
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