fox2mike 05/06/20 08:09:11 Modified: xml/htdocs/doc/en devfs-guide.xml Log: #96379, Making the fact that devfs is obsolete quite clear. Thanks to Jan for reporting.
Revision Changes Path 1.9 +11 -4 xml/htdocs/doc/en/devfs-guide.xml file : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/devfs-guide.xml?rev=1.9&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=gentoo plain: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/devfs-guide.xml?rev=1.9&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=gentoo diff : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/devfs-guide.xml.diff?r1=1.8&r2=1.9&cvsroot=gentoo Index: devfs-guide.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/devfs-guide.xml,v retrieving revision 1.8 retrieving revision 1.9 diff -u -r1.8 -r1.9 --- devfs-guide.xml 14 Feb 2005 15:57:59 -0000 1.8 +++ devfs-guide.xml 20 Jun 2005 08:09:11 -0000 1.9 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?> -<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/devfs-guide.xml,v 1.8 2005/02/14 15:57:59 swift Exp $ --> +<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/devfs-guide.xml,v 1.9 2005/06/20 08:09:11 fox2mike Exp $ --> <!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd"> @@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ <license/> -<version>0.3</version> -<date>2005-02-14</date> +<version>0.4</version> +<date>2005-06-20</date> <chapter> <title>What is devfs?</title> @@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ <title>The (good?) old days</title> <body> +<warn>devfs is <e>obsolete</e> and will eventually be removed from the stable +2.6 tree. Users on 2.6 kernels are hereby advised to switch to udev. For further +information on udev, please refer to the <uri +link="/doc/en/udev-guide.xml">Gentoo udev Guide</uri>. +</warn> + <p> Traditional Linux implementations provide their users with an abstract device path, called <path>/dev</path>. Inside this path the @@ -150,7 +156,8 @@ Yet devfs does come with it's own problems; for the end users these issues aren't really visible, but for the kernel maintainers the problems are big enough to mark devfs <e>obsolete</e> in favor of <uri -link="udev-guide.xml">udev</uri> (which Gentoo supports as well :). +link="udev-guide.xml">udev</uri>, which Gentoo supports and uses by default on +most architectures since the 2005.0 release when using a 2.6 kernel. </p> <p> -- [email protected] mailing list
