Am 13.01.2012 00:17, schrieb Tom Gundersen:
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
Compat with exactly what? It isn't like our low-level userspace stays the same for longer than someone can blink anyways, so seems stupid to keep this around considering other things break random hooks anyway.
I simply could not find the users of it ('git grep devtmpfs' gave me nothing), so didn't want to just rip it out. If someone else wants to do it I wouldn't object...
-t
This was used in poll_device in earlier versions (no idea what Dave did to it). The logic was: Only wait for a device if either udev is used, or devtmpfs is mounted. Otherwise, devices won't magically show up if we wait, so there is no point in waiting. I don't remember any other users.