[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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