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Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:12:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Askar Safin To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Christian Brauner , Al Viro , Jan Kara , Christoph Hellwig , Jens Axboe , Andy Shevchenko , Aleksa Sarai , =?UTF-8?q?Thomas=20Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= , Julian Stecklina , Gao Xiang , Art Nikpal , Andrew Morton , Eric Curtin , Alexander Graf , Rob Landley , Lennart Poettering , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-csky@vger.kernel.org, linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-openrisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, x86@kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, initramfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Y . Ts'o" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Michal Simek , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Luis Chamberlain , Kees Cook , Thorsten Blum , Heiko Carstens , patches@lists.linux.dev Subject: [PATCH RESEND 30/62] doc: remove documentation for block device 4 0 Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:38:09 +0000 Message-ID: <20250913003842.41944-31-safinaskar@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.2 In-Reply-To: <20250913003842.41944-1-safinaskar@gmail.com> References: <20250913003842.41944-1-safinaskar@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-api@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit It doesn't work. I tested this both in system booted using initramfs and in system booted from real root device directly Signed-off-by: Askar Safin --- Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt index 27835389ca49..6ce0940233a8 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt @@ -138,12 +138,6 @@ number for BSD PTY devices. As of Linux 2.1.115, this is no longer supported. Use major numbers 2 and 3. - 4 block Aliases for dynamically allocated major devices to be used - when its not possible to create the real device nodes - because the root filesystem is mounted read-only. - - 0 = /dev/root - 5 char Alternate TTY devices 0 = /dev/tty Current TTY device 1 = /dev/console System console -- 2.47.2