* [PATCH] mark devfs obsolete
@ 2003-08-18 18:40 Christoph Hellwig
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2003-08-18 18:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: torvalds; +Cc: linux-kernel
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.
This time with various spelling fixes pointed out by all the nice
people on lkml.
--- 1.166/MAINTAINERS Thu Aug 14 21:17:45 2003
+++ edited/MAINTAINERS Sun Aug 17 21:36:11 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 Sun Aug 17 21:36:11 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://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.
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* [PATCH] mark devfs obsolete
@ 2003-08-16 11:41 Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-18 17:51 ` Tom Rini
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2003-08-16 11:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: torvalds; +Cc: linux-kernel
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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* Re: [PATCH] mark devfs obsolete
2003-08-16 11:41 Christoph Hellwig
@ 2003-08-18 17:51 ` Tom Rini
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Tom Rini @ 2003-08-18 17:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christoph Hellwig, torvalds, linux-kernel
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On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 01:41:02PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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/>.
Bogus URL here.
--
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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