[2.6 patch] document that udev isn't yet ready

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk_at_fs.tum.de)
Date: 10/08/03

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To: Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

    On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:30:21AM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
    > On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:51:27 +0000, Greg KH wrote:
    > > And remember, _I_ did not submit that patch to the kernel marking devfs
    > > obsolete. Other kernel developers did. And for good reasons, which
    > > have all been explained before. Even if udev wasn't even written yet,
    > > it would have been done.
    >
    > "Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev,"
    >
    > Most people expect after reading that sentence, that udev can do the
    > work devfs did for them. But udev is not ready to do that, even by
    > far. Thats why people complain.
    >...

    The following trivial change to te help text should clarify it:

    --- linux-2.6.0-test6-mm4/fs/Kconfig.old 2003-10-08 14:02:15.000000000 +0200
    +++ linux-2.6.0-test6-mm4/fs/Kconfig 2003-10-08 14:03:33.000000000 +0200
    @@ -784,7 +784,7 @@
               ptys, you will also need to enable (and mount) the /dev/pts
               filesystem (CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS).
     
    - Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev,
    + Note that devfs will be obsoleted by udev
               <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/>.
               It has been stripped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for
               legacy installations that use its naming scheme which is

    > Regards, Andreas

    cu
    Adrian 

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