From 8d2b5a37b7084c71b327c3e4d8a2a499050502dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Burgess Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:55:41 +0000 Subject: Noted the removal of devfs from the kernel git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7774 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter07/udev.xml | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'chapter07') 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 devfs 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. + 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. 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf