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 patch was first send on 3. Sep 2006 to the LKML but nobody picked
it up, so here is the second chance. :-)
The patch is against linus' current git tree and it would be nice to
see it in the final 2.6.18 kernel.
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..e360fa9
--- /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 will be removed,
+ along with the the assorted devfs function calls throughout the
+ kernel tree.
+
+Users:
--
jens m. noedler
[email protected]
pgp: 0x9f0920bb
http://noedler.de
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? :)
/mjt
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.
thanks,
greg k-h
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.
/mjt
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