Linus has released 2.6.13 after a longer testing period and committed to improving the release cycle by merging in the major changes within the first two weeks for 2.6.14 and above as
discussed before in kernel summit recently.
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Member since:In any event udev does everything DevFS did, does it better, and is actively being maintained. The writing for DevFS has been on the wall for quite some time.
Actually no it doesn't. It can't be there before "init" starts for example.
Only recently udev have been reasonnably fast, it wasn't before.
I can assert it is actively maintained, it is actively changing too. The config files have changed numerous times, and recently, the udev support have been discontinued, forcing most users like me to change numerous OS config files (securetty, inittab, fstab, ...) and critical ones at that.
Anyway this kernel introduces good things, improving the desktop usability, especially now that inotify is in the kernel. The gamin server (better french replacement of fam) can take advantage of inotify already, so everything is improving at the same speed as before ("fast") in Linux OS land.
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I think he'd be better on continuing to the third millenium. The first was 1AD - 1000AD, second was 1001AD-2000AD, the third is 2001AD-3000AD. I wouldn't like to try getting DevFS working on the 2.0.36 kernel
Sorry, couldn't resist ;-)
In any event udev does everything DevFS did, does it better, and is actively being maintained. The writing for DevFS has been on the wall for quite some time.