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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2005-06-21 00:15:16 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2006-06-26 15:25:09 -0400
commit890fbae2818a045350b8d1e3bda61ceb88ff1d17 (patch)
treecf57a61841780ed1ab6bffa3ea0bf7d8cdd999d0 /Documentation/Changes
parent331b831983f9d706f4a40d08a996d5c2c7a6ea7b (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>
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@@ -181,8 +181,8 @@ Intel IA32 microcode
181-------------------- 181--------------------
182 182
183A driver has been added to allow updating of Intel IA32 microcode, 183A driver has been added to allow updating of Intel IA32 microcode,
184accessible as both a devfs regular file and as a normal (misc) 184accessible as a normal (misc) character device. If you are not using
185character device. If you are not using devfs you may need to: 185udev you may need to:
186 186
187mkdir /dev/cpu 187mkdir /dev/cpu
188mknod /dev/cpu/microcode c 10 184 188mknod /dev/cpu/microcode c 10 184
@@ -201,7 +201,9 @@ with programs using shared memory.
201udev 201udev
202---- 202----
203udev is a userspace application for populating /dev dynamically with 203udev is a userspace application for populating /dev dynamically with
204only entries for devices actually present. udev replaces devfs. 204only entries for devices actually present. udev replaces the basic
205functionality of devfs, while allowing persistant device naming for
206devices.
205 207
206FUSE 208FUSE
207---- 209----
@@ -231,18 +233,13 @@ The PPP driver has been restructured to support multilink and to
231enable it to operate over diverse media layers. If you use PPP, 233enable it to operate over diverse media layers. If you use PPP,
232upgrade pppd to at least 2.4.0. 234upgrade pppd to at least 2.4.0.
233 235
234If you are not using devfs, you must have the device file /dev/ppp 236If you are not using udev, you must have the device file /dev/ppp
235which can be made by: 237which can be made by:
236 238
237mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 239mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0
238 240
239as root. 241as root.
240 242
241If you use devfsd and build ppp support as modules, you will need
242the following in your /etc/devfsd.conf file:
243
244LOOKUP PPP MODLOAD
245
246Isdn4k-utils 243Isdn4k-utils
247------------ 244------------
248 245