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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Why is the newest kernel patched with ndevfs?

Remember the research I did into ndevfs a few months ago? Well, the reason that no one uses it is that it's not really good for anything: it can't support more than one layer of folders. ALSA wouldn't work with it, DRI wouldn't work, I'm not even sure if loopback would work.

Is there a reason it's in there? As of right now, there's nothing that it can do that udev can't... :?

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: Why is the newest kernel patched with ndevfs?

Remember the research I did into ndevfs a few months ago?

nope.

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AndyRTR

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From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

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Re: Why is the newest kernel patched with ndevfs?

I can promise you that the patch won´t work with kernel 2.6.15 ;-)

apeiro

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From: Victoria, BC, Canada

Registered: 2002-08-12

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Re: Why is the newest kernel patched with ndevfs?

It's not in there anymore.

[jvinet@earth ~]$ uname -r
2.6.14-ARCH
[jvinet@earth ~]$ cat /proc/filesystems | grep ndevfs
[jvinet@earth ~]$

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: Why is the newest kernel patched with ndevfs?

Then why is the patch even used in the PKGBUILD?

[proteus@localhost ~]$ ls /var/abs/kernels/kernel26
PKGBUILD                             kallsyms-compression.patch
acpi-dsdt-initrd-v0.7d-2.6.12.patch  kernel26.install
acpi-fixup.patch                     logo_linux_clut224.ppm
config                               ndevfs.patch

And it's included as a dependency:

source=(ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-$basekernel.tar.bz2 
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-$pkgver.bz2 
  config logo_linux_clut224.ppm 
  ndevfs.patch 
  acpi-dsdt-initrd-v0.7d-2.6.12.patch 
  #ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/patches/release/$basekernel/acpi-20050902-$basekernel.diff.bz2 
  http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-ck1/patches/nvidia_6111-6629_compat2.diff)

apeiro

Daddy

From: Victoria, BC, Canada

Registered: 2002-08-12

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Re: Why is the newest kernel patched with ndevfs?

Yup.  So is the acpi-dsdt patch and the nvidia one, but they're not in the latest kernel either.

Sometimes its easier to comment out a patch if we think we might need it again in the future.  Sometimes we forget (or don't bother) to comment them out in the source array, but it doesn't hurt anything.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Why is the newest kernel patched with ndevfs?

Ah, I get it. Thanks.