On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:12:04PM -0800, Sasha Howard wrote:
> Has anyone had any experience with devfs and the 2.2.18 kernel? When I do a
> "make menuconfig" with the 2.2.18 kernel the option "devfs filesystem" does
> not show up under the filesystem menu. However, it appears that devfs is in
> fact in the kernel source tree: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/devfs_fs.h.
> Could it be that devfs was left out in the menuconfig script this time around?
>
> -- Alexander
Actually, no.
According to the release notes sent out by Alan Cox about 2.2.18,
there is no mention of devfs mentioned at all. Also, doing a tar -tzvf on the
source tarball, I see no directory tree for devfs. there are header files,
yes, but no actual source code. Also, devfs had started to be included in the
early stages of the 2.3 tree, but still was excluded for 2.2. There hasn't
been a patch released for 2.2.18, for devfs either, and I don't think there
will, with Linus pre-releasing 2.4.0. 2.4 is close around the corner, so you
may be stuck with 2.2.17 until 2.4 comes out. The devfs patch for 2.2.17 will
not apply cleanly to the 2.2.18 tree, so YMMV if you try to patch manually.
BL.
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