linux-kernel - [PATCH -rc6] [resend] Documentation/ABI: devfs is not obsolete, but removed!

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Date:	Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:19:37 +0200
From:	"jens m. noedler" <noedler@....de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
CC:	gregkh@...e.de
Subject: [PATCH -rc6] [resend] Documentation/ABI: devfs is not obsolete, but
 removed!

Hi everybody, Greg, Linus,

This little patch just moves the devfs entry from ABI/obsolete to
ABI/removed and adds the comment, that devfs was removed in 2.6.18.

The patch was first send on 3. Sep 2006 to the LKML but nobody picked
it up, so here is the second chance. :-) 

The patch is against linus' current git tree and it would be nice to 
see it in the final 2.6.18 kernel.

Kind regards, Jens


Signed-off-by: jens m. noedler <noedler@....de>

---

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/devfs b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/devfs
deleted file mode 100644
index b8b8739..0000000
--- a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/devfs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-What:		devfs
-Date:		July 2005
-Contact:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
-Description:
-	devfs has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable
-	races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is
-	against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev.
-	The files fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h will be removed,
-	along with the the assorted devfs function calls throughout the
-	kernel tree.
-
-Users:
-
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs b/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e360fa9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+What:		devfs
+Date:		July 2005 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.18
+Contact:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
+Description:
+	devfs has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable
+	races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is
+	against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev.
+	The files fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h will be removed,
+	along with the the assorted devfs function calls throughout the
+	kernel tree.
+
+Users:



-- 
jens m. noedler
  noedler@....de
  pgp: 0x9f0920bb
  http://noedler.de
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