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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Bradley W. Allen wrote:

<snip>
> 
> Sure, I could continue to use DevFS, but if as you said, it's not
> going to be around long, then I could be in trouble for depending
> on it.
> 
<snip>

It's marked as deprecated.  This means it will (probably) be removed for 
the next stable kernel (2.8) ... This will be at least 2 years away, 
probably.

Saying devfs is not going to be around for long is hardly accurate.

	/ Brett