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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2005-06-20 21:15:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2006-06-26 12:25:09 -0700 |
| commit | 890fbae2818a045350b8d1e3bda61ceb88ff1d17 (patch) | |
| tree | cf57a61841780ed1ab6bffa3ea0bf7d8cdd999d0 /Documentation/Changes | |
| parent | 331b831983f9d706f4a40d08a996d5c2c7a6ea7b (diff) | |
| download | linux-next-890fbae2818a045350b8d1e3bda61ceb88ff1d17.tar.gz | |
[PATCH] devfs: Last little devfs cleanups throughout the kernel tree.
Just removes a few unused #defines and fixes some comments due to
devfs now being gone.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/Changes')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/Changes | 15 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes index b02f476c2973..488272074c36 100644 --- a/Documentation/Changes +++ b/Documentation/Changes @@ -181,8 +181,8 @@ Intel IA32 microcode -------------------- A driver has been added to allow updating of Intel IA32 microcode, -accessible as both a devfs regular file and as a normal (misc) -character device. If you are not using devfs you may need to: +accessible as a normal (misc) character device. If you are not using +udev you may need to: mkdir /dev/cpu mknod /dev/cpu/microcode c 10 184 @@ -201,7 +201,9 @@ with programs using shared memory. udev ---- udev is a userspace application for populating /dev dynamically with -only entries for devices actually present. udev replaces devfs. +only entries for devices actually present. udev replaces the basic +functionality of devfs, while allowing persistant device naming for +devices. FUSE ---- @@ -231,18 +233,13 @@ The PPP driver has been restructured to support multilink and to enable it to operate over diverse media layers. If you use PPP, upgrade pppd to at least 2.4.0. -If you are not using devfs, you must have the device file /dev/ppp +If you are not using udev, you must have the device file /dev/ppp which can be made by: mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 as root. -If you use devfsd and build ppp support as modules, you will need -the following in your /etc/devfsd.conf file: - -LOOKUP PPP MODLOAD - Isdn4k-utils ------------ |