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Tip revision: 0d02ec6b3136c73c09e7859f0d0e4e2c4c07b49b authored by Linus Torvalds on 21 March 2021, 21:56:43 UTC
Linux 5.12-rc4
Tip revision: 0d02ec6
devfs
What:		devfs
Date:		July 2005 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.18
Contact:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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 were removed,
	along with the assorted devfs function calls throughout the
	kernel tree.

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