Re: [PATCH] devfs v183 available

Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Sun, 29 Jul 2001 23:53:56 -0400


John Covici writes:
> I have two questions -- please forgive me if they are somewhat dumb.
>
> First, if I have the 2.4.7 source tree what patch level of devfs do I
> have -- how is that related to the devfs 183 you announced?

Check Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ChangeLog

> Second, I need to change a driver which is now not devfs aware, but
> hangs the kernel if devfs is not present -- where can I get
> documentation for the devfs api?

Build the man pages: the source code has markups so that documentation
can be automatically extracted.

Regards,

Richard....
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