mark devfs obsolete
PATCH 1/1 mark devfs obsolete
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.
MAINTAINERS +1 -4
@@ -558,10 +558,7 @@ S: Maintained DEVICE FILESYSTEM -P: Richard Gooch -M: [email protected] -L: [email protected] -S: Maintained +S: Obsolete DIGI INTL. EPCA DRIVER P: Digi International, Inc
fs/Kconfig +8 -1
@@ -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.