remove outdated and misleading stuff

Packagers who still need this, should carry it in their own
package. It just causes too much trouble to users to have it
in the tree and expect that it's needed or the way to do it.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>

6 files changed, 10 insertions, 144 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index fe56095686..9e1aae3452 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -36,11 +36,13 @@ Operation:
     a tmpfs filesystem mounted, which is populated from scratch by udev.
     Created nodes or changed permissions don't survive a reboot.
 
-  - The content of /lib/udev/devices directory should be copied over to the
-    tmpfs mounted /dev, to provide the required nodes to initialize udev.
+  - The content of /lib/udev/devices directory which contains the nodes,
+    symlinks and directories, which are always expected to be in/dev, should
+    be copied over to the tmpfs mounted /dev, to provide the required nodes
+    to initialize udev and continue booting.
 
-  - The udevd daemon must be started to receive netlink events from the kernel
-    driver core.
+  - The udevd daemon must be started by an init script to receive netlink
+    events from the kernel driver core.
 
   - From kernel version 2.6.15 on, the hotplug helper /sbin/hotplug should
     be disabled with an init script before the boot scripts are run and
diff --git a/etc/udev/udev-devfs.rules b/etc/udev/udev-devfs.rules
index 380bbee85b..ec44692d68 100644
--- a/etc/udev/udev-devfs.rules
+++ b/etc/udev/udev-devfs.rules
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # is just kept around to proof that udev is able to emulate the devfs scheme.
 #
 # In a world where devices can come and go at any time, the devfs device
-# naming scheme of simple grouping and enumeration does not help _anything_.
+# naming scheme of simple grouping and enumeration DOES NOT HELP ANYTHING.
 #
 # Use custom rules to name your device or look at the persistent device
 # naming scheme, which is implemented for disks and extend it in a 
diff --git a/extras/dvb.sh b/extras/dvb.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index b14a6d0d7b..0000000000
--- a/extras/dvb.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh -e
-echo $1 | sed -e 's#^dvb\([0-9]\)\.\([^0-9]*\)\([0-9]\)#dvb/adapter\1/\2\3#'
-exit 0
diff --git a/extras/inputdev.sh b/extras/inputdev.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 82e4fdc374..0000000000
--- a/extras/inputdev.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh -e
-#
-# Scans /proc/bus/input/devices for the given device.
-#
-# (c) 2004 Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>
-# GPL v2 or later applies.
-
-[ "$1" ] || exit 0
-
-# input device name, less leading "input/"
-DEVICE=${1#input/}
-
-# "|"-separated list.
-# The first found in the given device's "N:" line will be output.
-DEFAULT_KEYWORDS='dvb|saa7134'
-KEYWORDS=${2:-$DEFAULT_KEYWORDS}
-
-exec sed -nre '
-  /^I:/ {
-    : gather
-    N
-    /\nH:/! b gather
-    /'"$DEVICE"'/ {
-      s/^.*\nN:[^\n]*("|\b)('"$KEYWORDS"')("|\b)[^\n]*\n.*$/inputdev/
-      T
-      p
-    }
-  }
-' < /proc/bus/input/devices
-
diff --git a/extras/name_cdrom.pl b/extras/name_cdrom.pl
index 5e696f33ae..28d2d29a3d 100644
--- a/extras/name_cdrom.pl
+++ b/extras/name_cdrom.pl
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl
 
-# a horribly funny script that shows how flexible udev can really be
-# This is to be executed by udev with the following rules:
-#
-# KERNEL="hd*[!0-9]|sr*", PROGRAM="name_cdrom.pl $tempnode", SYMLINK+="%c"
+# Horrible but funny script that shows how flexible udev can really be
+# This is to be executed by udev with the following rule:
+#   KERNEL="hd*[!0-9]|sr*", PROGRAM="name_cdrom.pl $tempnode", SYMLINK+="%c"
 
 use strict;
 use warnings;
diff --git a/extras/start_udev b/extras/start_udev
deleted file mode 100644
index c2518761e3..0000000000
--- a/extras/start_udev
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,102 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/sh
-#
-# start_udev
-#
-# script to initialize /dev by using udev.
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
-#
-# Released under the GPL v2 only.
-#
-# This needs to be run at the earliest possible point in the boot 
-# process.
-#
-# Based on the udev init.d script
-#
-# Thanks go out to the Gentoo developers for proving 
-# that this is possible to do.
-#
-# Yes, it's very verbose, feel free to turn off all of the echo calls,
-# they were there to make me feel better that everything was working
-# properly during development...
-#
-
-. /etc/udev/udev.conf
-
-prog=udev
-sysfs_dir=/sys
-bin=/sbin/udev
-udevd=/sbin/udevd
-
-run_udev () {
-	export ACTION=add
-
-	# handle block devices and their partitions
-	for i in ${sysfs_dir}/block/*; do
-		# add each drive
-		export DEVPATH=${i#${sysfs_dir}}
-		echo "$DEVPATH"
-		$bin block
-
-		# add each partition, on each device
-		for j in $i/*; do
-			if [ -f $j/dev ]; then
-				export DEVPATH=${j#${sysfs_dir}}
-				echo "$DEVPATH"
-				$bin block
-			fi
-		done
-	done
-	# all other device classes
-	for i in ${sysfs_dir}/class/*; do
-		for j in $i/*; do
-			if [ -f $j/dev ]; then
-				export DEVPATH=${j#${sysfs_dir}}
-				CLASS=`echo ${i#${sysfs_dir}} | \
-					cut --delimiter='/' --fields=3-`
-				echo "$DEVPATH"
-				$bin $CLASS
-			fi
-		done
-	done
-	return 0
-}
-
-make_extra_nodes () {
-	# there are a few things that sysfs does not export for us.
-	# these things go here (and remember to remove them in 
-	# remove_extra_nodes()
-	#
-	# Thanks to Gentoo for the initial list of these.
-	ln -snf /proc/self/fd $udev_root/fd
-	ln -snf /proc/self/fd/0 $udev_root/stdin
-	ln -snf /proc/self/fd/1 $udev_root/stdout
-	ln -snf /proc/self/fd/2 $udev_root/stderr
-	ln -snf /proc/kcore $udev_root/core
-
-	mkdir $udev_root/pts
-	mkdir $udev_root/shm
-}
-
-# don't use udev if sysfs is not mounted.
-if [ ! -d $sysfs_dir/block ]; then
-	exit 1
-fi
-
-echo "mounting... ramfs at $udev_root"
-mount -n -t ramfs none $udev_root
-
-# propogate /udev from /sys
-echo "Creating initial udev device nodes:"
-
-# You can use the shell scripts above by calling run_udev or execute udevstart
-# which does the same thing, but much faster by not using shell.  
-#  only comment out one of the following lines.
-#run_udev
-/sbin/udevstart
-
-echo "making extra nodes"
-make_extra_nodes
-
-echo "udev startup is finished!"
-exit 0