1*4882a593SmuzhiyunWhat: devfs 2*4882a593SmuzhiyunDate: July 2005 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.18 3*4882a593SmuzhiyunContact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 4*4882a593SmuzhiyunDescription: 5*4882a593Smuzhiyun devfs has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable 6*4882a593Smuzhiyun races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is 7*4882a593Smuzhiyun against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev. 8*4882a593Smuzhiyun 9*4882a593Smuzhiyun The files fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h were removed, 10*4882a593Smuzhiyun along with the assorted devfs function calls throughout the 11*4882a593Smuzhiyun kernel tree. 12*4882a593Smuzhiyun 13*4882a593SmuzhiyunUsers: 14