From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932114AbWGLAgJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:36:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932297AbWGLAgJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:36:09 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:61960 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932114AbWGLAgI (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:36:08 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:36:06 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Michal Piotrowski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove mentionings of devfs in documentation Message-ID: <20060712003606.GA32259@stusta.de> References: <20060711152546.GV13938@stusta.de> <44B3C781.8060005@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44B3C781.8060005@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 05:45:05PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > Adrian Bunk: > > Now that devfs is removed, there's no longer any need to document how to > > do this or that with devfs. > > > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk > > > > --- > [snip] > > --- linux-2.6.18-rc1-mm1-full/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/devfs 2006-07-09 11:22:37.000000000 +0200 > > +++ /dev/null 2006-04-23 00:42:46.000000000 +0200 > > @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ > > -What: devfs > > -Date: July 2005 > > -Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > -Description: > > - devfs 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. > > - The files fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h will be removed, > > - along with the the assorted devfs function calls throughout the > > - kernel tree. > > - > > -Users: > > - > > According to Documentation/ABI/README > " removed/ > This directory contains a list of the old interfaces that have > been removed from the kernel. > " > > we should add devfs to removed/ Thanks, agreed. > Regards, > Michal >... cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed