Re: [RFC] Patch series to remove devfs [00/22]

From: J.A. Magallon
Date: Sun Jun 12 2005 - 17:46:33 EST



On 06.11, Greg KH wrote:
> As everyone knows[1], devfs is going to be removed from the kernel soon.
> To accomplish this, here is a series of patches (22 in all) that do just
> that. Surprisingly enough, devfs was almost everywhere in the kernel,
> that's why it takes so many patches :)
>

You missed this for -mm, do not know if they apply to mainline:

--- linux-2.6.11-jam25/drivers/scsi/ch.c.orig 2005-06-13 00:40:58.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.11-jam25/drivers/scsi/ch.c 2005-06-13 00:41:16.000000000 +0200
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include <linux/completion.h>
-#include <linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h>
#include <linux/ioctl32.h>
#include <linux/compat.h>
#include <linux/chio.h> /* here are all the ioctls */
@@ -940,8 +939,6 @@
if (init)
ch_init_elem(ch);

- devfs_mk_cdev(MKDEV(SCSI_CHANGER_MAJOR,ch->minor),
- S_IFCHR | S_IRUGO | S_IWUGO, ch->name);
class_device_create(ch_sysfs_class,
MKDEV(SCSI_CHANGER_MAJOR,ch->minor),
dev, "s%s", ch->name);
@@ -974,7 +971,6 @@

class_device_destroy(ch_sysfs_class,
MKDEV(SCSI_CHANGER_MAJOR,ch->minor));
- devfs_remove(ch->name);
kfree(ch->dt);
kfree(ch);
ch_devcount--;
--- linux-2.6.11-jam25/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr.c.orig 2005-06-13 00:40:00.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.11-jam25/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr.c 2005-06-13 00:40:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -101,7 +101,6 @@
#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include <linux/timer.h>
-#include <linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h>
#include <linux/mc146818rtc.h>
#include <linux/reboot.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
@@ -1654,7 +1653,6 @@
** int attached; %% # of high level drivers attached to this %%
** int access_count; %% Count of open channels/mounts %%
** void *hostdata; %% available to low-level driver %%
-** devfs_handle_t de; %% directory for the device %%
** char type;
** char scsi_level;
** char vendor[8], model[16], rev[4];


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