Greg Kroah-Hartman | c18f636 | 2006-04-27 14:10:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | What: devfs |
jens m. noedler | 6d99eb3 | 2006-09-10 18:46:33 +0200 | [diff] [blame^] | 2 | Date: July 2005 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.18 |
Greg Kroah-Hartman | c18f636 | 2006-04-27 14:10:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> |
| 4 | Description: |
| 5 | devfs has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable |
| 6 | races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is |
| 7 | against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev. |
jens m. noedler | 6d99eb3 | 2006-09-10 18:46:33 +0200 | [diff] [blame^] | 8 | The files fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h were removed, |
Greg Kroah-Hartman | c18f636 | 2006-04-27 14:10:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | along with the the assorted devfs function calls throughout the |
| 10 | kernel tree. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Users: |