From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262430AbVFUWog (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:44:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262422AbVFUWlh (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:41:37 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:10686 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262404AbVFUWY0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:24:26 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:24:19 -0700 From: Greg KH To: torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] devfs: remove devfs from Kconfig preventing it from being built Message-ID: <20050621222419.GA23896@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 --- 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 , 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, - . - 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 - for more - details. - - If unsure, say N. - config DEVPTS_FS_XATTR bool "/dev/pts Extended Attributes" depends on UNIX98_PTYS