From: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove mentionings of devfs in documentation
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:45:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B3C781.8060005@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060711152546.GV13938@stusta.de>
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:
+
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-11 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-11 15:25 [2.6 patch] remove mentionings of devfs in documentation Adrian Bunk
2006-07-11 15:45 ` Michal Piotrowski [this message]
2006-07-12 0:36 ` Adrian Bunk
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