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authorGreg KH <gregkh@suse.de>2005-06-21 18:24:19 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-21 18:41:16 -0400
commit2c6e5a839f92591a4bc6cac4a575d42151645af3 (patch)
treee9214a7c5a4de96a76445dbc36262239c8315e20
parent9527cc77e25b3a3787569edcbb8e74080b8df54a (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/Kconfig50
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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
744config 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
772config 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
783config 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
794config DEVPTS_FS_XATTR 744config 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