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docs: admin: devices: remove /dev/cdwriter

Remove /dev/cdwriter from the local symlinks table and from the related
note.

Creation of the symlink was removed from udev in commit [1] that
became a part of release 115 in 2007 [2].

The altered text was added in 1995 [3].

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/hotplug/udev.git/commit/?id=b1a2b83f2d
2007-08-11 14:06:03 +0200 Kay Sievers.
rules: update Fedora rules

[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/hotplug/udev.git/commit/?h=7e599863919
2007-08-24 01:29:54 +0200 Kay Sievers.
release 115

[3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/diff/Documentation/devices.txt?h=v2.5.45&id=6e995ea941a
1995-11-21 Linus Torvalds.
Import 1.3.43

Signed-off-by: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <f5c3f6e9-cd92-47e3-89c3-06dbcfc98c17@gmail.com>

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Max Nikulin and committed by
Jonathan Corbet 3a8501b3 ae4f42ea

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Documentation/admin-guide/devices.rst
··· 115 115 /dev/mouse mouse port symbolic Current mouse device 116 116 /dev/tape tape device symbolic Current tape device 117 117 /dev/cdrom CD-ROM device symbolic Current CD-ROM device 118 - /dev/cdwriter CD-writer symbolic Current CD-writer device 119 118 /dev/scanner scanner symbolic Current scanner device 120 119 /dev/modem modem port symbolic Current dialout device 121 120 /dev/root root device symbolic Current root filesystem ··· 128 129 129 130 For SCSI devices, ``/dev/tape`` and ``/dev/cdrom`` should point to the 130 131 *cooked* devices (``/dev/st*`` and ``/dev/sr*``, respectively), whereas 131 - ``/dev/cdwriter`` and /dev/scanner should point to the appropriate generic 132 - SCSI devices (/dev/sg*). 132 + ``/dev/scanner`` should point to the appropriate generic 133 + SCSI device (``/dev/sg*``). 133 134 134 135 ``/dev/mouse`` may point to a primary serial TTY device, a hardware mouse 135 136 device, or a socket for a mouse driver program (e.g. ``/dev/gpmdata``).