From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Josh Boyer" Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Delete JFFS (version 1) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:38:05 -0600 Message-ID: <625fc13d0612121038l22a2b252v3d3773caa8826e41@mail.gmail.com> References: <457EA2FE.3050206@garzik.org> <20061212095359.51483704.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Jeff Garzik" , "Linux Kernel" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, jffs-dev@axis.com, "David Woodhouse" Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]:48989 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751576AbWLLSiH (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:38:07 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o25so310297nfa for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:38:06 -0800 (PST) To: "Andrew Morton" In-Reply-To: <20061212095359.51483704.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On 12/12/06, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:39:26 -0500 > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > I have created the 'kill-jffs' branch of > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git that > > removes fs/jffs. > > > > I argue that you can count the users (who aren't on 2.4) on one hand, > > and developers don't seem to have cared for it in ages. > > > > People are already talking about jffs2 replacements, so I propose we zap > > jffs in 2.6.21. > > It would be good to provide unignorable notice of this in 2.6.20. Via a > loud printk, or perhaps even CONFIG_BROKEN or CONFIG_EMBEDDED. Something like the below? Make CONFIG_JFFS depend on CONFIG_BROKEN Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig index b3b5aa0..4ac367d 100644 --- a/fs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/Kconfig @@ -1204,13 +1204,16 @@ config EFS_FS config JFFS_FS tristate "Journalling Flash File System (JFFS) support" - depends on MTD && BLOCK + depends on MTD && BLOCK && BROKEN help JFFS is the Journalling Flash File System developed by Axis Communications in Sweden, aimed at providing a crash/powerdown-safe file system for disk-less embedded devices. Further information is available at (). + NOTE: This filesystem is deprecated and is scheduled for removal in + 2.6.21. See Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt + config JFFS_FS_VERBOSE int "JFFS debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)" depends on JFFS_FS