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Based on kernel version 2.6.26. Page generated on 2008-07-16 21:12 EST.

1	What:		devfs
2	Date:		July 2005 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.18
3	Contact:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh[AT]suse[DOT]de>
4	Description:
5		devfs has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable
6		races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is
7		against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev.
8		The files fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h were removed,
9		along with the assorted devfs function calls throughout the
10		kernel tree.
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