Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:45:05 +0200 | From | Michal Piotrowski <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] remove mentionings of devfs in documentation |
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Hi Adrian,
Adrian Bunk: > Now that devfs is removed, there's no longer any need to document how to > do this or that with devfs. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> > > --- [snip] > --- linux-2.6.18-rc1-mm1-full/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/devfs 2006-07-09 11:22:37.000000000 +0200 > +++ /dev/null 2006-04-23 00:42:46.000000000 +0200 > @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ > -What: devfs > -Date: July 2005 > -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 will be removed, > - along with the the assorted devfs function calls throughout the > - kernel tree. > - > -Users: > -
According to Documentation/ABI/README " removed/ This directory contains a list of the old interfaces that have been removed from the kernel. "
we should add devfs to removed/
Regards, Michal
-- Michal K. K. Piotrowski LTG - Linux Testers Group (http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/ltg/wiki/)
Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
diff -uprN -X linux-work-clean/Documentation/dontdiff linux-work-clean/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs linux-work5/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs --- linux-work-clean/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-work5/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs 2006-07-11 17:35:30.000000000 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +What: devfs +Date: July 2005 +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 will be removed, + along with the the assorted devfs function calls throughout the + kernel tree. + +Users: + - 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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