Re: devfs

Ian Molton (spyro@f2s.com)
Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:08:34 +0000


On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:46:50 +0000
Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> wrote:

> > And since when did feature freeze affect, as the guy said, *purely*
> > userspace implementations?
>
> Since it would a *feature* to move it out of kernel space.
> To reiterate : _FEATURE_ _FREEZE_. Nothing[1] new[2]
> should be going into mainline at this point.

nothing new WOULD be going in. nor would devfs need to move out - just
disable it. It *is* still an option, is it not?

> We should now be in the stabilising period, where we don't require
> testers to have to upgrade their userspace every fortnight.

its not a kernel issue anymore, if its totally in userspace, is it?
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