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| author | jens m. noedler <noedler@web.de> | 2006-09-10 18:46:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2006-09-25 21:08:36 -0700 |
| commit | 6d99eb33f55879bc71ddba077e09cf8a61129707 (patch) | |
| tree | 2e3dbfa6dbec664ece1f8748073b39a705cd7955 /Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs | |
| parent | 7e4720201ad44ace85a443f41d668a62a737e7d0 (diff) | |
Documentation/ABI: devfs is not obsolete, but removed!
Signed-off-by: Jens M. Noedler <noedler@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs b/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8195c4e0d0a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +What: devfs +Date: July 2005 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.18 +Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> +Description: + devfs has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable + races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is + against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev. + The files fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h were removed, + along with the the assorted devfs function calls throughout the + kernel tree. + +Users: |