[PATCH 1/47] Documentation/ABI: devfs is not obsolete, but removed!

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Sep 26 2006 - 01:38:42 EST


From: jens m. noedler <noedler@xxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Jens M. Noedler <noedler@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/ABI/{obsolete => removed}/devfs | 5 ++---
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/devfs b/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs
similarity index 73%
rename from Documentation/ABI/obsolete/devfs
rename to Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs
index b8b8739..8195c4e 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/devfs
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
What: devfs
-Date: July 2005
+Date: July 2005 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.18
Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
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,
+ 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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