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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] remove mentionings of devfs in documentation
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:
+
-
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