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author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2005-06-21 00:15:16 -0400 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2006-06-26 15:25:09 -0400 |
commit | 890fbae2818a045350b8d1e3bda61ceb88ff1d17 (patch) | |
tree | cf57a61841780ed1ab6bffa3ea0bf7d8cdd999d0 /Documentation/Changes | |
parent | 331b831983f9d706f4a40d08a996d5c2c7a6ea7b (diff) |
[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 | |||
181 | -------------------- | 181 | -------------------- |
182 | 182 | ||
183 | A driver has been added to allow updating of Intel IA32 microcode, | 183 | A driver has been added to allow updating of Intel IA32 microcode, |
184 | accessible as both a devfs regular file and as a normal (misc) | 184 | accessible as a normal (misc) character device. If you are not using |
185 | character device. If you are not using devfs you may need to: | 185 | udev you may need to: |
186 | 186 | ||
187 | mkdir /dev/cpu | 187 | mkdir /dev/cpu |
188 | mknod /dev/cpu/microcode c 10 184 | 188 | mknod /dev/cpu/microcode c 10 184 |
@@ -201,7 +201,9 @@ with programs using shared memory. | |||
201 | udev | 201 | udev |
202 | ---- | 202 | ---- |
203 | udev is a userspace application for populating /dev dynamically with | 203 | udev is a userspace application for populating /dev dynamically with |
204 | only entries for devices actually present. udev replaces devfs. | 204 | only entries for devices actually present. udev replaces the basic |
205 | functionality of devfs, while allowing persistant device naming for | ||
206 | devices. | ||
205 | 207 | ||
206 | FUSE | 208 | FUSE |
207 | ---- | 209 | ---- |
@@ -231,18 +233,13 @@ The PPP driver has been restructured to support multilink and to | |||
231 | enable it to operate over diverse media layers. If you use PPP, | 233 | enable it to operate over diverse media layers. If you use PPP, |
232 | upgrade pppd to at least 2.4.0. | 234 | upgrade pppd to at least 2.4.0. |
233 | 235 | ||
234 | If you are not using devfs, you must have the device file /dev/ppp | 236 | If you are not using udev, you must have the device file /dev/ppp |
235 | which can be made by: | 237 | which can be made by: |
236 | 238 | ||
237 | mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 | 239 | mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 |
238 | 240 | ||
239 | as root. | 241 | as root. |
240 | 242 | ||
241 | If you use devfsd and build ppp support as modules, you will need | ||
242 | the following in your /etc/devfsd.conf file: | ||
243 | |||
244 | LOOKUP PPP MODLOAD | ||
245 | |||
246 | Isdn4k-utils | 243 | Isdn4k-utils |
247 | ------------ | 244 | ------------ |
248 | 245 | ||