Re: [RFC] Patch series to remove devfs [00/22]

["J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>]

On 06.11, Greg KH wrote:
> As everyone knows[1], devfs is going to be removed from the kernel soon.
> To accomplish this, here is a series of patches (22 in all) that do just
> that.  Surprisingly enough, devfs was almost everywhere in the kernel,
> that's why it takes so many patches :)
> 

You missed this for -mm, do not know if they apply to mainline:

--- linux-2.6.11-jam25/drivers/scsi/ch.c.orig	2005-06-13 00:40:58.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.11-jam25/drivers/scsi/ch.c	2005-06-13 00:41:16.000000000 +0200
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <linux/completion.h>
-#include <linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h>
 #include <linux/ioctl32.h>
 #include <linux/compat.h>
 #include <linux/chio.h>			/* here are all the ioctls */
@@ -940,8 +939,6 @@
 	if (init)
 		ch_init_elem(ch);
 
-	devfs_mk_cdev(MKDEV(SCSI_CHANGER_MAJOR,ch->minor),
-		      S_IFCHR | S_IRUGO | S_IWUGO, ch->name);
 	class_device_create(ch_sysfs_class,
 			    MKDEV(SCSI_CHANGER_MAJOR,ch->minor),
 			    dev, "s%s", ch->name);
@@ -974,7 +971,6 @@
 
 	class_device_destroy(ch_sysfs_class,
 			     MKDEV(SCSI_CHANGER_MAJOR,ch->minor));
-	devfs_remove(ch->name);
 	kfree(ch->dt);
 	kfree(ch);
 	ch_devcount--;
--- linux-2.6.11-jam25/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr.c.orig	2005-06-13 00:40:00.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.11-jam25/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr.c	2005-06-13 00:40:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -101,7 +101,6 @@
 #include <linux/moduleparam.h>
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <linux/timer.h>
-#include <linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h>
 #include <linux/mc146818rtc.h>
 #include <linux/reboot.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
@@ -1654,7 +1653,6 @@
 **	int                     attached;		            %% # of high level drivers attached to this %%
 **	int                     access_count;	            %% Count of open channels/mounts %%
 **	void                    *hostdata;		            %% available to low-level driver %%
-**	devfs_handle_t          de;                         %% directory for the device %%
 **	char                    type;
 **	char                    scsi_level;
 **	char                    vendor[8], model[16], rev[4];


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