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What: devfs
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2006-09-10 10:46:33 -06:00
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Date: July 2005 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.18
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Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Description:
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devfs has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable
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races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is
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against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev.
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2006-09-10 10:46:33 -06:00
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The files fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h were removed,
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2007-05-09 00:57:56 -06:00
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along with the assorted devfs function calls throughout the
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kernel tree.
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Users:
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