Re: [2.6 patch] remove mentionings of devfs in documentation

[Michal Piotrowski]

Hi Adrian,

Adrian Bunk:
> Now that devfs is removed, there's no longer any need to document how to 
> do this or that with devfs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
[snip]
> --- linux-2.6.18-rc1-mm1-full/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/devfs	2006-07-09 11:22:37.000000000 +0200
> +++ /dev/null	2006-04-23 00:42:46.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
> -What:		devfs
> -Date:		July 2005
> -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,
> -	along with the the assorted devfs function calls throughout the
> -	kernel tree.
> -
> -Users:
> -

According to Documentation/ABI/README
"  removed/
        This directory contains a list of the old interfaces that have
        been removed from the kernel.
"

we should add devfs to removed/

Regards,
Michal

-- 
Michal K. K. Piotrowski
LTG - Linux Testers Group
(http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/ltg/wiki/)

Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@xxxxxxxxx>

diff -uprN -X linux-work-clean/Documentation/dontdiff linux-work-clean/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs linux-work5/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs
--- linux-work-clean/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-work5/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs	2006-07-11 17:35:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+What:		devfs
+Date:		July 2005
+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,
+	along with the the assorted devfs function calls throughout the
+	kernel tree.
+
+Users:
+

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