MPC52xx: sysfs failure on adding new device driver

Mark Chambers markc at mail.com
Fri Jun 10 01:28:28 EST 2005


Sylvain:
> btw, if not yet integrated you should send your patch to Wolfang, he's 
> the one maintaining that tree.

Wolfgang:
> I've seen the patch, but did not decide yet what to do with it.  Many
> drivers  don't  support  devfs  anyway, and in my opinion devfs makes
> little sense in embedded systems anyway. Not to mention that it  will
> officially  be removed from the kernel tree in less than 4 weeks from
> now (see Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt).

This is nonsense.  You know, when I made this patch I said 
to myself, "Self, you're wasting your time, these guys won't take patches 
from somebody they don't know"  But I thought it was enough of a 
no-brainer that it might go through.

Seems I was wrong.

Mark Chambers





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