Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sat, 16 Aug 2003 13:41:02 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | [PATCH] mark devfs obsolete |
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The person listed as maintainer hasn't touched it for alomost a year and after that only some odd fixes and my interface fixes went it.
With udev we also have a proper replacement.
--- 1.166/MAINTAINERS Thu Aug 14 21:17:45 2003 +++ edited/MAINTAINERS Sat Aug 16 11:56:20 2003 @@ -558,10 +558,7 @@ S: Maintained DEVICE FILESYSTEM -P: Richard Gooch -M: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au -L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -S: Maintained +S: Obsolete DIGI INTL. EPCA DRIVER P: Digi International, Inc --- 1.28/fs/Kconfig Thu Aug 14 02:20:32 2003 +++ edited/fs/Kconfig Sat Aug 16 12:03:57 2003 @@ -762,7 +762,7 @@ programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here. config DEVFS_FS - bool "/dev file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" + bool "/dev file system support (OBSOLETE)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL help This is support for devfs, a virtual file system (like /proc) which @@ -780,6 +780,13 @@ Note that devfs no longer manages /dev/pts! If you are using UNIX98 ptys, you will also need to enable (and mount) the /dev/pts filesystem (CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS). + + Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev, + <http://http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/>. + It has been striped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for + legacy installations that use it's naming scheme which is + unfortunately different from the names normal Linux installations + use. If unsure, say N. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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