From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263369AbTJaPfY (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:35:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263370AbTJaPfY (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:35:24 -0500 Received: from mail.cybertrails.com ([162.42.150.35]:64450 "EHLO mail12.cybertrails.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263369AbTJaPfU (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:35:20 -0500 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:35:15 -0700 From: Paul Dickson To: Andreas Jellinghaus Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com Subject: Re: Post-halloween doc updates. Message-Id: <20031031083515.07f92837.dickson@permanentmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20031030141519.GA10700@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:25:08 +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:19:47 +0000, Dave Jones wrote: > > Deprecated/obsolete features. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > - devfs has been obsoleted in favour of udev (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/) > > s/has been obsoleted/will be olsoleted some day/ > > many devices need to be added to sysfs, > before udev+sysfs can replace devfs. So the correct term should be deprecated rather than obsoleted. Which can be taken to mean "please which switch when possible". -Paul