Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 23:37:58 -0700 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: HEADS UP: devfs in -stable going away soon Message-ID: <20010622063758.929EA3E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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As previously inquired about, I'd like to remove the old, broken DEVFS from -stable (see that e-mail for the rationale). Since all the replies I got (and there were quite a few) were favorable, I'm going ahead with this. Poul-Henning hinted that there might still be people interested in it for some reason; if you're one of those people, please speak up now with why you'd like to see it stay, or forever hold your peace ;-). Assuming no reasonable objections arise, I plan to remove it in two phases: phase one will remove support code from the system, such as init trying to mount it, and other #ifdef DEVFS stuff in the kernel. (I'll send a patch which does this to -stable and -audit in a few days for review and testing.) The second phase will remove devfs-specific files such as sys/miscfs/devfs, the man pages, et al. Since no new code is being added, I don't expect any problems. The phases may be a few days apart, but the system will be buildable and runnable in between them. Again, if anybody has any objections to any of this, please speak up sooner than later. Thanks, Dima Dorfman dima@unixfreak.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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