[BusyBox] the bug system and 1.0.1
Tito
farmatito at tiscali.it
Sat Jul 16 12:30:32 UTC 2005
On Saturday 16 July 2005 09:43, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Friday 15 July 2005 17:07, Paul Fox wrote:
>
> > Yes -- these are candidates for 1.0.1, maybe
> > -----------------
> > 0000006 Other minor 06-06-05 [PATCH] devfsd wrong error messages
>
> Sounds like SVN commit 10480...
Yes it is, the fix is already in rc1.
> Ah, I remember now. I rejected this patch because it's 95% whitespace changes
> with a tiny amount of functional changes hidden deep in there. (I don't mind
> whitespace changes, but mixing them with functional changes means you're
> looking for a needle in a haystack trying to review it.) I complained until
> somebody split out just the functional changes, and that was 10480. So I
> _think_ this patch is trash now, unless somebody wanted to split out the
> whitespace changes, and let's face it: we're talking about devfs.
I tried to mark it as resolved but was not able to do so.
> Speaking of which, now that the kernel's yanked devfs, how long are we going
> to keep devfsd? (We don't have an applet deprication policy, that I'm aware
> of. I suspect it'll be a while, since so many embedded people are still
> using 2.2 (!), but thought I'd raise the issue...)
>
There were rumours on kerneltrap.org about a rewrite of devfs
to be mantained separarely so maybe it will not go away at all.
Ciao,
Tito
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