From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Richard hasn't touched it for about a year and since then only bugfixes and my changes to the kernel interface went in. No one has stepped up to maintain it and with udev we have a proper replacement now. I will do some more work before 2.6 (mainly trying to implement Al's refcounting scheme to avoid stale entries), but that's it. MAINTAINERS | 5 +---- fs/Kconfig | 9 ++++++++- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/Kconfig~mark-devfs-obsolete fs/Kconfig --- 25/fs/Kconfig~mark-devfs-obsolete 2003-08-27 10:28:43.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/fs/Kconfig 2003-08-27 10:28:43.000000000 -0700 @@ -762,7 +762,7 @@ config PROC_FS programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here. config DEVFS_FS - bool "/dev file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" + bool "/dev file system support (OBSOLETE)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL help This is support for devfs, a virtual file system (like /proc) which @@ -781,6 +781,13 @@ config DEVFS_FS ptys, you will also need to enable (and mount) the /dev/pts filesystem (CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS). + Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev, + <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/>. + It has been stripped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for + legacy installations that use its naming scheme which is + unfortunately different from the names normal Linux installations + use. + If unsure, say N. config DEVFS_MOUNT diff -puN MAINTAINERS~mark-devfs-obsolete MAINTAINERS --- 25/MAINTAINERS~mark-devfs-obsolete 2003-08-27 10:28:43.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/MAINTAINERS 2003-08-27 10:28:43.000000000 -0700 @@ -557,10 +557,7 @@ L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained DEVICE FILESYSTEM -P: Richard Gooch -M: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au -L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -S: Maintained +S: Obsolete DIGI INTL. EPCA DRIVER P: Digi International, Inc _