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* [d-kernel] Fw: [PATCH] mark devfs obsolete
@ 2003-08-18 14:18 Sergey Vlasov
  2003-08-18 17:08 ` Denis Smirnov
  2003-08-18 18:13 ` Albert R. Valiev
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Sergey Vlasov @ 2003-08-18 14:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: devel-kernel

Hello!

Кто там у нас хотел devfs?


Begin forwarded message:

Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 13:41:02 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
Subject: [PATCH] mark devfs obsolete


The person listed as maintainer hasn't touched it for alomost a year
and after that only some odd fixes and my interface fixes went it.

With udev we also have a proper replacement.


--- 1.166/MAINTAINERS	Thu Aug 14 21:17:45 2003
+++ edited/MAINTAINERS	Sat Aug 16 11:56:20 2003
@@ -558,10 +558,7 @@
 S:	Maintained
 
 DEVICE FILESYSTEM
-P:	Richard Gooch
-M:	rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
-L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
-S:	Maintained
+S:	Obsolete
 
 DIGI INTL. EPCA DRIVER
 P:	Digi International, Inc
--- 1.28/fs/Kconfig	Thu Aug 14 02:20:32 2003
+++ edited/fs/Kconfig	Sat Aug 16 12:03:57 2003
@@ -762,7 +762,7 @@
 	  programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here.
 
 config DEVFS_FS
-	bool "/dev file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+	bool "/dev file system support (OBSOLETE)"
 	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
 	help
 	  This is support for devfs, a virtual file system (like /proc) which
@@ -780,6 +780,13 @@
 	  Note that devfs no longer manages /dev/pts!  If you are using UNIX98
 	  ptys, you will also need to enable (and mount) the /dev/pts
 	  filesystem (CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS).
+
+	  Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev,
+	  <http://http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/>.
+	  It has been striped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for
+	  legacy installations that use it's naming scheme which is
+	  unfortunately different from the names normal Linux installations
+	  use.
 
 	  If unsure, say N.
 




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2003-08-18 14:18 [d-kernel] Fw: [PATCH] mark devfs obsolete Sergey Vlasov
2003-08-18 17:08 ` Denis Smirnov
2003-08-19  5:43   ` Serge Ryabchun
2003-08-19 19:37     ` Denis Smirnov
2003-08-20  8:44       ` Serge Ryabchun
2003-08-20 10:35         ` Albert R. Valiev
2003-08-20 10:41           ` Serge Ryabchun
2003-08-20 11:10             ` Albert R. Valiev
2003-08-20 21:16           ` Denis Smirnov
2003-08-20 21:15         ` Denis Smirnov
2003-08-21  9:12           ` Serge Ryabchun
2003-08-22  2:32             ` Denis Smirnov
2003-08-22  7:24               ` Serge Ryabchun
2003-08-22 16:24                 ` Denis Smirnov
2003-08-18 18:13 ` Albert R. Valiev

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