[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the kernel tree

This is the first patch in a series of patches that removes devfs
support from the kernel.  This patch removes the core devfs code, and
its private header file.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 97 deletions

diff --git a/fs/devfs/util.c b/fs/devfs/util.c
deleted file mode 100644
index db06d388c9ac..000000000000
--- a/fs/devfs/util.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,97 +0,0 @@
-/*  devfs (Device FileSystem) utilities.
-
-    Copyright (C) 1999-2002  Richard Gooch
-
-    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-    modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
-    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
-    version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-
-    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
-    Library General Public License for more details.
-
-    You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
-    License along with this library; if not, write to the Free
-    Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
-    Richard Gooch may be reached by email at  rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
-    The postal address is:
-      Richard Gooch, c/o ATNF, P. O. Box 76, Epping, N.S.W., 2121, Australia.
-
-    ChangeLog
-
-    19991031   Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
-               Created.
-    19991103   Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
-               Created <_devfs_convert_name> and supported SCSI and IDE CD-ROMs
-    20000203   Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
-               Changed operations pointer type to void *.
-    20000621   Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
-               Changed interface to <devfs_register_series>.
-    20000622   Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
-               Took account of interface change to <devfs_mk_symlink>.
-               Took account of interface change to <devfs_mk_dir>.
-    20010519   Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
-               Documentation cleanup.
-    20010709   Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
-               Created <devfs_*alloc_major> and <devfs_*alloc_devnum>.
-    20010710   Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
-               Created <devfs_*alloc_unique_number>.
-    20010730   Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
-               Documentation typo fix.
-    20010806   Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
-               Made <block_semaphore> and <char_semaphore> private.
-    20010813   Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
-               Fixed bug in <devfs_alloc_unique_number>: limited to 128 numbers
-    20010818   Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
-               Updated major masks up to Linus' "no new majors" proclamation.
-	       Block: were 126 now 122 free, char: were 26 now 19 free.
-    20020324   Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
-               Fixed bug in <devfs_alloc_unique_number>: was clearing beyond
-	       bitfield.
-    20020326   Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
-               Fixed bitfield data type for <devfs_*alloc_devnum>.
-               Made major bitfield type and initialiser 64 bit safe.
-    20020413   Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
-               Fixed shift warning on 64 bit machines.
-    20020428   Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
-               Copied and used macro for error messages from fs/devfs/base.c 
-    20021013   Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
-               Documentation fix.
-    20030101   Adam J. Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>
-               Eliminate DEVFS_SPECIAL_{CHR,BLK}.  Use mode_t instead.
-    20030106   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
-               Rewrite devfs_{,de}alloc_devnum to look like C code.
-*/
-#include <linux/module.h>
-#include <linux/init.h>
-#include <linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h>
-#include <linux/slab.h>
-#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
-#include <linux/genhd.h>
-#include <linux/bitops.h>
-
-int devfs_register_tape(const char *name)
-{
-	char tname[32], dest[64];
-	static unsigned int tape_counter;
-	unsigned int n = tape_counter++;
-
-	sprintf(dest, "../%s", name);
-	sprintf(tname, "tapes/tape%u", n);
-	devfs_mk_symlink(tname, dest);
-
-	return n;
-}
-
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(devfs_register_tape);
-
-void devfs_unregister_tape(int num)
-{
-	if (num >= 0)
-		devfs_remove("tapes/tape%u", num);
-}
-
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(devfs_unregister_tape);