Commit 71c53af4 authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mark devfs obsolete

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Richard hasn't touched it for about a year and since then only bugfixes and
my changes to the kernel interface went in.  No one has stepped up to
maintain it and with udev we have a proper replacement now.

I will do some more work before 2.6 (mainly trying to implement Al's
refcounting scheme to avoid stale entries), but that's it.
parent e4e9bd23
...@@ -605,10 +605,7 @@ L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ...@@ -605,10 +605,7 @@ L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
S: Maintained S: Maintained
DEVICE FILESYSTEM DEVICE FILESYSTEM
P: Richard Gooch S: Obsolete
M: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
S: Maintained
DIGI INTL. EPCA DRIVER DIGI INTL. EPCA DRIVER
P: Digi International, Inc P: Digi International, Inc
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...@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ config PROC_KCORE ...@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ config PROC_KCORE
default y if !ARM default y if !ARM
config DEVFS_FS config DEVFS_FS
bool "/dev file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" bool "/dev file system support (OBSOLETE)"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL depends on EXPERIMENTAL
help help
This is support for devfs, a virtual file system (like /proc) which This is support for devfs, a virtual file system (like /proc) which
...@@ -785,6 +785,13 @@ config DEVFS_FS ...@@ -785,6 +785,13 @@ config DEVFS_FS
ptys, you will also need to enable (and mount) the /dev/pts ptys, you will also need to enable (and mount) the /dev/pts
filesystem (CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS). filesystem (CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS).
Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev,
<http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/>.
It has been stripped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for
legacy installations that use its naming scheme which is
unfortunately different from the names normal Linux installations
use.
If unsure, say N. If unsure, say N.
config DEVFS_MOUNT config DEVFS_MOUNT
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