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| author | Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> | 2005-06-21 18:24:19 -0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-06-21 18:41:16 -0400 |
| commit | 2c6e5a839f92591a4bc6cac4a575d42151645af3 (patch) | |
| tree | e9214a7c5a4de96a76445dbc36262239c8315e20 | |
| parent | 9527cc77e25b3a3787569edcbb8e74080b8df54a (diff) | |
[PATCH] devfs: remove devfs from Kconfig preventing it from being built
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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/Kconfig | 50 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 50 deletions
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig index 6a4ad4bb7a54..178e27494b74 100644 --- a/fs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/Kconfig | |||
| @@ -741,56 +741,6 @@ config SYSFS | |||
| 741 | 741 | ||
| 742 | Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space. | 742 | Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space. |
| 743 | 743 | ||
| 744 | config DEVFS_FS | ||
| 745 | bool "/dev file system support (OBSOLETE)" | ||
| 746 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL | ||
| 747 | help | ||
| 748 | This is support for devfs, a virtual file system (like /proc) which | ||
| 749 | provides the file system interface to device drivers, normally found | ||
| 750 | in /dev. Devfs does not depend on major and minor number | ||
| 751 | allocations. Device drivers register entries in /dev which then | ||
| 752 | appear automatically, which means that the system administrator does | ||
| 753 | not have to create character and block special device files in the | ||
| 754 | /dev directory using the mknod command (or MAKEDEV script) anymore. | ||
| 755 | |||
| 756 | This is work in progress. If you want to use this, you *must* read | ||
| 757 | the material in <file:Documentation/filesystems/devfs/>, especially | ||
| 758 | the file README there. | ||
| 759 | |||
| 760 | Note that devfs no longer manages /dev/pts! If you are using UNIX98 | ||
| 761 | ptys, you will also need to mount the /dev/pts filesystem (devpts). | ||
| 762 | |||
| 763 | Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev, | ||
| 764 | <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/>. | ||
| 765 | It has been stripped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for | ||
| 766 | legacy installations that use its naming scheme which is | ||
| 767 | unfortunately different from the names normal Linux installations | ||
| 768 | use. | ||
| 769 | |||
| 770 | If unsure, say N. | ||
| 771 | |||
| 772 | config DEVFS_MOUNT | ||
| 773 | bool "Automatically mount at boot" | ||
| 774 | depends on DEVFS_FS | ||
| 775 | help | ||
| 776 | This option appears if you have CONFIG_DEVFS_FS enabled. Setting | ||
| 777 | this to 'Y' will make the kernel automatically mount devfs onto /dev | ||
| 778 | when the system is booted, before the init thread is started. | ||
| 779 | You can override this with the "devfs=nomount" boot option. | ||
| 780 | |||
| 781 | If unsure, say N. | ||
| 782 | |||
| 783 | config DEVFS_DEBUG | ||
| 784 | bool "Debug devfs" | ||
| 785 | depends on DEVFS_FS | ||
| 786 | help | ||
| 787 | If you say Y here, then the /dev file system code will generate | ||
| 788 | debugging messages. See the file | ||
| 789 | <file:Documentation/filesystems/devfs/boot-options> for more | ||
| 790 | details. | ||
| 791 | |||
| 792 | If unsure, say N. | ||
| 793 | |||
| 794 | config DEVPTS_FS_XATTR | 744 | config DEVPTS_FS_XATTR |
| 795 | bool "/dev/pts Extended Attributes" | 745 | bool "/dev/pts Extended Attributes" |
| 796 | depends on UNIX98_PTYS | 746 | depends on UNIX98_PTYS |
