[PATCH RESEND 30/62] doc: remove documentation for block device 4 0

Askar Safin
2025-09-13T01:12:51Z

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 <safinaskar@gmail.com>
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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
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