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-rw-r--r--chapter07/udev.xml5
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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 &ndash; due to a lack of maintenance &ndash; 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