From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Dec 13 8:12:46 2000 From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 08:12:43 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from warning.follo.net (warning.follo.net [195.204.136.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8421937B402 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 08:12:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by warning.follo.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA27725; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 17:12:40 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 17:12:39 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: retiring kernfs Message-ID: <20001213171239.C26270@warning.follo.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 05:02:41PM +0100 Sender: eivind@warning.follo.net Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 05:02:41PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Any serious objections to retiring the (long obsolete) kernfs > pseudo-file system? (I'll count any "kernfs? what's that?" replies as > "no, go ahead and remove it") I think we should remove it. We've not recommended using it for half a decade, the relevant parts of the information is available from sysctl (or should be - if it isn't, removing kernfs is a good way to get people to tell us :-), and if we at some point want to pick it up again, it would probably be better to base it off the version in NetBSD (which has been maintained) rather than the cruft we have in our tree. The changes to date in the cruft will be available from CVS. Besides, it reduce the buildtime for LINT and the KLDs :-) Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message