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 <[email protected]>
---
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 <[email protected]>
-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 <[email protected]>
+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:
--
jens m. noedler
[email protected]
pgp: 0x9f0920bb
http://noedler.de
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