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Hi everybody, Greg, Linus, This little patch just moves the devfs entry from ABI/obsolete to ABI/removed and adds the comment, that devfs was removed in 2.6.18. The patch is against linus' current git tree and should go into the final 2.6.18. Kind regards, Jens Signed-off-by: jens m. noedler <noedler@web.de> --- diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/devfs b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/devfs deleted file mode 100644 index b8b8739..0000000 --- a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/devfs +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ -What: devfs -Date: July 2005 -Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> -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: - diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs b/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e360fa9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +What: devfs +Date: July 2005 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.18 +Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> +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: -- jens m. noedler noedler@web.de pgp: 0x9f0920bb http://noedler.de -- VGER BF report: U 0.740655 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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