As already state in the thread about Adam's devfs reimplementation there
is much devfs functionality that is unused or only used by the
arch/ia64/sn/ code that currently doesn't even compile in 2.5 and that
will get it's own filesystem that fits the needs better when SGI moves
to 2.6.

(the first hunk is the only exception to the above rule, but it's just
a debug printk :))