| 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 | bc5bca5 | 2012-02-15 14:48:01 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
| Greg Kroah-Hartman | c18f636 | 2006-04-27 14:10:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 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, |
| Michael Opdenacker | 59c5159 | 2007-05-09 08:57:56 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | along with the assorted devfs function calls throughout the |
| Greg Kroah-Hartman | c18f636 | 2006-04-27 14:10:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | kernel tree. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Users: |