Noted the removal of devfs from the kernel

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<para>2006-08-17</para>
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<para>[matthew] - Noted devfs' removal from the kernel. Thanks to
Peter Ennis.</para>
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<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.8.</para>
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particular developer(s). The <systemitem
class="filesystem">devfs</systemitem> file system also suffers from race
conditions that are inherent in its design and cannot be fixed without a
substantial revision to the kernel. It has also been marked as deprecated
due to a lack of recent maintenance.</para>
substantial revision to the kernel. It was marked as deprecated for a long
period &ndash; due to a lack of maintenance &ndash; and was finally removed
from the kernel in June, 2006.</para>
<para>With the development of the unstable 2.5 kernel tree, later released
as the 2.6 series of stable kernels, a new virtual filesystem called