[PATCH] Make JFFS depend on CONFIG_BROKEN

[PATCH] Make JFFS depend on CONFIG_BROKEN

[Josh Boyer]

Mark JFFS as broken and provide a warning to users that it is
deprecated and scheduled for removal in 2.6.21

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>

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 (<http://developer.axis.com/software/jffs/>).

+	  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

Re: [PATCH] Make JFFS depend on CONFIG_BROKEN

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 07:25:56AM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Mark JFFS as broken and provide a warning to users that it is
> deprecated and scheduled for removal in 2.6.21
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
> 
> 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 (<http://developer.axis.com/software/jffs/>).
> 
> +	  NOTE: This filesystem is deprecated and is scheduled for removal in
> +	  2.6.21.  See Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
>...

$ grep -i jffs Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 
$ 

cu
Adrian

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Re: [PATCH] Make JFFS depend on CONFIG_BROKEN

[Josh Boyer]

On 12/30/06, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 07:25:56AM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > +       NOTE: This filesystem is deprecated and is scheduled for removal in
> > +       2.6.21.  See Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> >...
>
> $ grep -i jffs Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> $

This was a follow on patch to Jeff's 'kill-jffs' branch.  He asked me
to resend it as a separate patch without all the quoted context.

Jeff?

josh