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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: |