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| author | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-08-17 19:55:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-08-17 19:55:41 +0000 |
| commit | 8d2b5a37b7084c71b327c3e4d8a2a499050502dd (patch) | |
| tree | 70492772637b1e9bd4d41cdc8bc396567a8a4b16 | |
| parent | a0e0c7c416c5ea73574a25b05c815a5bce1f954a (diff) | |
Noted the removal of devfs from the kernel
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7774 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter07/udev.xml | 5 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index bf0baeab8..3c5ce0ee3 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ <para>2006-08-17</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> + <para>[matthew] - Noted devfs' removal from the kernel. Thanks to + Peter Ennis.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.8.</para> </listitem> <listitem> diff --git a/chapter07/udev.xml b/chapter07/udev.xml index 61bd71cc7..7bdcaf455 100644 --- a/chapter07/udev.xml +++ b/chapter07/udev.xml @@ -55,8 +55,9 @@ particular developer(s). The <systemitem class="filesystem">devfs</systemitem> file system also suffers from race conditions that are inherent in its design and cannot be fixed without a - substantial revision to the kernel. It has also been marked as deprecated - due to a lack of recent maintenance.</para> + substantial revision to the kernel. It was marked as deprecated for a long + period – due to a lack of maintenance – and was finally removed + from the kernel in June, 2006.</para> <para>With the development of the unstable 2.5 kernel tree, later released as the 2.6 series of stable kernels, a new virtual filesystem called |