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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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c18f6365	1	What: devfs
6d99eb33	2	Date: July 2005 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.18
bc5bca53	3	Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
c18f6365 GKH	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.
6d99eb33	8	The files fs/devfs/, include/linux/devfs_fs.h were removed,
59c51591	9	along with the assorted devfs function calls throughout the
c18f6365 GKH	10	kernel tree.
	11
	12	Users: