[Discuss] devfs in kernel source tree - 2.6.15

[Andrew Resch]

As far as I understand it, devfs has been deprecated in favour of udev.
I am not sure which kernel version this happened with, but perhaps this
is why it is no longer showing in the menu config.

Cheers,
Andrew

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 15:41 -0700, Jeff East wrote:
> I've been using a Backports download of 2.6.15 for a while.  I was just
> about to try devfs.  I have an odd problem ...
> 
> There is a "(kernel)/fs/devfs" directory, with a Makefile, base.c, and
> util.c.  But it is NOT mentionned at all in "(kernel)/fs/Kconfig", so it
> never shows up in "make menuconfig".
> 
> Now I'm not skillfull enough to start messing around in the source tree,
> but any ideas what I'm missing?
> 
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