Re: Patch: 2.5.62 devfs shrink

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:50:32 -0800


"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> wrote:
>
> Here is an update to my patch to shrink devfs for linux-2.5.62.

Adam, could you please provide a description of the incompatibilities between
this implementation and the present one? For both kernel and userspace.

And would you also please provide a list of operations which people need to
perform to migrate existing setups to the new code.

And should I drop the below patch?

diff -puN init/do_mounts.c~devfs-fix init/do_mounts.c
--- 25/init/do_mounts.c~devfs-fix 2003-01-16 19:39:56.000000000 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/init/do_mounts.c 2003-01-16 19:39:56.000000000 -0800
@@ -853,11 +853,6 @@ void prepare_namespace(void)
{
int is_floppy;

-#ifdef CONFIG_DEVFS_FS
- sys_mount("devfs", "/dev", "devfs", 0, NULL);
- do_devfs = 1;
-#endif
-
md_run_setup();

if (saved_root_name[0]) {

_

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