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1c18f6365SGreg Kroah-HartmanWhat:		devfs
26d99eb33Sjens m. noedlerDate:		July 2005 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.18
3bc5bca53SGreg Kroah-HartmanContact:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
4c18f6365SGreg Kroah-HartmanDescription:
5c18f6365SGreg Kroah-Hartman	devfs has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable
6c18f6365SGreg Kroah-Hartman	races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is
7c18f6365SGreg Kroah-Hartman	against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev.
8*54a19b4dSMauro Carvalho Chehab
96d99eb33Sjens m. noedler	The files fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h were removed,
1059c51591SMichael Opdenacker	along with the assorted devfs function calls throughout the
11c18f6365SGreg Kroah-Hartman	kernel tree.
12c18f6365SGreg Kroah-Hartman
13c18f6365SGreg Kroah-HartmanUsers:
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