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
next 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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