what is the status of devfs?

[Christian Tröster]

Hi Robert!

Am Donnerstag, 8. Juli 2004 16:38 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
>    probably should send this to the main kernel list, but in playing
> around, i noticed that DEVFS_FS is labelled as both OBSOLETE and NEW,
> but in the Kconfig file, it depends on EXPERIMENTAL.
>
>    it seems a bit inconsistent for anything to be simultaneously
> EXPERIMENTAL, NEW and OBSOLETE, no?
I assume you are talking about 2.6.x :)
See Documentation/Changes line 115:
"DevFS has been obsoleted in favour of udev
(http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/)"

Bye, Christian

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