From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751305AbWGKPpG (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:45:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751304AbWGKPpG (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:45:06 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.206]:43959 "EHLO nz-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751302AbWGKPpD (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:45:03 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=IjCz1wFqUnjdOn1np7bsrHWcgRYPmsz1//qxPFRCVxe9PpEtMTgQn1v0+odkRYquLSCskPFynZxVFWjJTsQaplip5k28PVT8rAx1Ki/xCn90v+e67YwNOjQiYE5IlF3FlHUx+N3jyMDlKq4ednwX0jsathMGAv+JDbOutDFlqe0= Message-ID: <44B3C781.8060005@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:45:05 +0200 From: Michal Piotrowski User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove mentionings of devfs in documentation References: <20060711152546.GV13938@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20060711152546.GV13938@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/ Regards, Michal -- Michal K. K. Piotrowski LTG - Linux Testers Group (http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/ltg/wiki/) Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski diff -uprN -X linux-work-clean/Documentation/dontdiff linux-work-clean/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs linux-work5/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs --- linux-work-clean/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-work5/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs 2006-07-11 17:35:30.000000000 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +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: +