From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272234AbTHRSpw (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:45:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272236AbTHRSpv (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:45:51 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([212.34.189.10]:44718 "EHLO mail.lst.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272234AbTHRSpr (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:45:47 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:40:41 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: torvalds@osdl.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] mark devfs obsolete Message-ID: <20030818184041.GA7165@lst.de> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Score: -3 () PATCH_UNIFIED_DIFF,USER_AGENT_MUTT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The person listed as maintainer hasn't touched it for alomost a year and after that only some odd fixes and my interface fixes went it. With udev we also have a proper replacement. This time with various spelling fixes pointed out by all the nice people on lkml. --- 1.166/MAINTAINERS Thu Aug 14 21:17:45 2003 +++ edited/MAINTAINERS Sun Aug 17 21:36:11 2003 @@ -558,10 +558,7 @@ S: Maintained DEVICE FILESYSTEM -P: Richard Gooch -M: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au -L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -S: Maintained +S: Obsolete DIGI INTL. EPCA DRIVER P: Digi International, Inc --- 1.28/fs/Kconfig Thu Aug 14 02:20:32 2003 +++ edited/fs/Kconfig Sun Aug 17 21:36:11 2003 @@ -762,7 +762,7 @@ programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here. config DEVFS_FS - bool "/dev file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" + bool "/dev file system support (OBSOLETE)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL help This is support for devfs, a virtual file system (like /proc) which @@ -780,6 +780,13 @@ Note that devfs no longer manages /dev/pts! If you are using UNIX98 ptys, you will also need to enable (and mount) the /dev/pts filesystem (CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS). + + Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev, + . + It has been stripped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for + legacy installations that use its naming scheme which is + unfortunately different from the names normal Linux installations + use. If unsure, say N.