Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:46:33 +0200 | From | "jens m. noedler" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -rc6] [resend] Documentation/ABI: devfs is not obsolete, but removed! |
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Hello,
Michael Tokarev wrote at 09/10/2006 10:08 AM:
> Greg KH wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 10:04:53PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: >>> jens m. noedler wrote: >>>> 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 files fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h will be removed, >>>> + along with the the assorted devfs function calls throughout the >>>> + kernel tree. >>> So, will the files be removed at some point, or has them been removed >>> already? :) >> They are already removed. > > I know they're gone. I was just pointing out that the patch is wrong, > as it claims the files *will* be removed.
OK. I replaced "will be removed" with "were removed". And here is an updated patch against linus' current git tree.
Kind regards, Jens
Signed-off-by: jens m. noedler <noedler@web.de>
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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..8195c4e --- /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 were removed, + along with the the assorted devfs function calls throughout the + kernel tree. + +Users:
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