16d99eb33Sjens m. noedlerWhat: devfs 26d99eb33Sjens m. noedlerDate: July 2005 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.18 3bc5bca53SGreg Kroah-HartmanContact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> 46d99eb33Sjens m. noedlerDescription: 56d99eb33Sjens m. noedler devfs has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable 66d99eb33Sjens m. noedler races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is 76d99eb33Sjens m. noedler 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 116d99eb33Sjens m. noedler kernel tree. 126d99eb33Sjens m. noedler 136d99eb33Sjens m. noedlerUsers: 14