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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] devfs: remove devfs from Kconfig preventing it from being built
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:24:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050621222419.GA23896@kroah.com> (raw)

Here's a much smaller patch to simply disable devfs from the build.  If
this goes well, and there are no complaints for a few weeks, I'll resend
my big "devfs-die-die-die" series of patches that rip the whole thing
out of the kernel tree.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 fs/Kconfig |   50 --------------------------------------------------
 1 files changed, 50 deletions(-)

--- gregkh-2.6.orig/fs/Kconfig	2005-06-21 14:46:34.000000000 -0700
+++ gregkh-2.6/fs/Kconfig	2005-06-21 14:48:27.000000000 -0700
@@ -741,56 +741,6 @@
 
 	Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
 
-config DEVFS_FS
-	bool "/dev file system support (OBSOLETE)"
-	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
-	help
-	  This is support for devfs, a virtual file system (like /proc) which
-	  provides the file system interface to device drivers, normally found
-	  in /dev. Devfs does not depend on major and minor number
-	  allocations. Device drivers register entries in /dev which then
-	  appear automatically, which means that the system administrator does
-	  not have to create character and block special device files in the
-	  /dev directory using the mknod command (or MAKEDEV script) anymore.
-
-	  This is work in progress. If you want to use this, you *must* read
-	  the material in <file:Documentation/filesystems/devfs/>, especially
-	  the file README there.
-
-	  Note that devfs no longer manages /dev/pts!  If you are using UNIX98
-	  ptys, you will also need to mount the /dev/pts filesystem (devpts).
-
-	  Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev,
-	  <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/>.
-	  It has been stripped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for
-	  legacy installations that use its naming scheme which is
-	  unfortunately different from the names normal Linux installations
-	  use.
-
-	  If unsure, say N.
-
-config DEVFS_MOUNT
-	bool "Automatically mount at boot"
-	depends on DEVFS_FS
-	help
-	  This option appears if you have CONFIG_DEVFS_FS enabled. Setting
-	  this to 'Y' will make the kernel automatically mount devfs onto /dev
-	  when the system is booted, before the init thread is started.
-	  You can override this with the "devfs=nomount" boot option.
-
-	  If unsure, say N.
-
-config DEVFS_DEBUG
-	bool "Debug devfs"
-	depends on DEVFS_FS
-	help
-	  If you say Y here, then the /dev file system code will generate
-	  debugging messages. See the file
-	  <file:Documentation/filesystems/devfs/boot-options> for more
-	  details.
-
-	  If unsure, say N.
-
 config DEVPTS_FS_XATTR
 	bool "/dev/pts Extended Attributes"
 	depends on UNIX98_PTYS

             reply	other threads:[~2005-06-21 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-21 22:24 Greg KH [this message]
2005-06-21 22:59 ` [PATCH] devfs: remove devfs from Kconfig preventing it from being built David S. Miller
2005-06-22  4:13   ` Greg KH
2005-06-22  4:45     ` David S. Miller
2005-06-22  6:23       ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-06-22  8:37         ` J.A. Magallon
2005-06-22  9:23           ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-06-22  6:40       ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-23  3:45         ` Jim Crilly
2005-06-23 10:02       ` Helge Hafting
2005-06-22  8:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-22 15:34     ` Nix

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