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Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs

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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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