From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262531AbVFLN2T (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Jun 2005 09:28:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262548AbVFLN2S (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Jun 2005 09:28:18 -0400 Received: from ppp-6-84.mtl.aei.ca ([206.123.6.84]:4846 "EHLO aeimail.aei.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262531AbVFLN2Q convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Jun 2005 09:28:16 -0400 From: Ed Tomlinson Organization: me To: Armin Schindler Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove devfs_mk_cdev() function from the kernel tree Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 09:29:02 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 Cc: Greg K-H , Linux Kernel Mailinglist References: <11184761113499@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506120929.03212.tomlins@cam.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 12 June 2005 04:44, Armin Schindler wrote: > It didn't follow the development, is devfs now obsolete in kernel? > If not, these funktions still makes sense. > Armin, >>From Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt What: devfs When: July 2005 Files: fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h and assorted devfs function calls throughout the kernel tree Why: It 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. Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman This should not a surprise to anyone... Ed Tomlinson