* [PATCH] Documentation/ABI: devfs is not obsolete, but removed!
@ 2006-09-03 16:00 jens m. noedler
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From: jens m. noedler @ 2006-09-03 16:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Hi everybody, Greg, Linus,
This little patch just moves the devfs entry from ABI/obsolete to
ABI/removed and adds the comment, that devfs was removed in 2.6.18.
The patch is against linus' current git tree and should go into the final
2.6.18.
Kind regards, Jens
Signed-off-by: jens m. noedler <noedler@web.de>
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/devfs b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/devfs
deleted file mode 100644
index b8b8739..0000000
--- a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/devfs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -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:
-
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs b/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e360fa9
--- /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 will be removed,
+ along with the the assorted devfs function calls throughout the
+ kernel tree.
+
+Users:
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noedler@web.de
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http://noedler.de
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