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author | Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> | 2009-01-22 03:04:23 -0500 |
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committer | Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> | 2009-01-22 05:15:59 -0500 |
commit | 8af915ba1d1eae1f9f31fa8c5db8040492dc4785 (patch) | |
tree | 1303dd120bad2f4cde57eb8e38f844da47675b15 /fs | |
parent | 41810246df2e65c66dc1f0da79b282a95b664fc7 (diff) |
fs/Kconfig: move sysv out
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/Kconfig | 39 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | fs/sysv/Kconfig | 36 |
2 files changed, 37 insertions, 38 deletions
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig index d8672ccdc69e..e1cdb8310647 100644 --- a/fs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/Kconfig | |||
@@ -220,44 +220,7 @@ source "fs/omfs/Kconfig" | |||
220 | source "fs/hpfs/Kconfig" | 220 | source "fs/hpfs/Kconfig" |
221 | source "fs/qnx4/Kconfig" | 221 | source "fs/qnx4/Kconfig" |
222 | source "fs/romfs/Kconfig" | 222 | source "fs/romfs/Kconfig" |
223 | 223 | source "fs/sysv/Kconfig" | |
224 | config SYSV_FS | ||
225 | tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support" | ||
226 | depends on BLOCK | ||
227 | help | ||
228 | SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel | ||
229 | machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y | ||
230 | here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk | ||
231 | partitions. | ||
232 | |||
233 | If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely | ||
234 | that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order | ||
235 | to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is | ||
236 | a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse, | ||
237 | UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is | ||
238 | available via FTP (user: ftp) from | ||
239 | <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>). | ||
240 | NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems; | ||
241 | PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-) | ||
242 | |||
243 | If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the | ||
244 | network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support | ||
245 | (but you need NFS file system support obviously). | ||
246 | |||
247 | Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a | ||
248 | good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes | ||
249 | (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man | ||
250 | tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has | ||
251 | nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about | ||
252 | the System V file system in | ||
253 | <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>. | ||
254 | Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. | ||
255 | |||
256 | To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called | ||
257 | sysv. | ||
258 | |||
259 | If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. | ||
260 | |||
261 | 224 | ||
262 | config UFS_FS | 225 | config UFS_FS |
263 | tristate "UFS file system support (read only)" | 226 | tristate "UFS file system support (read only)" |
diff --git a/fs/sysv/Kconfig b/fs/sysv/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..33aeb4b75db1 --- /dev/null +++ b/fs/sysv/Kconfig | |||
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ | |||
1 | config SYSV_FS | ||
2 | tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support" | ||
3 | depends on BLOCK | ||
4 | help | ||
5 | SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel | ||
6 | machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y | ||
7 | here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk | ||
8 | partitions. | ||
9 | |||
10 | If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely | ||
11 | that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order | ||
12 | to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is | ||
13 | a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse, | ||
14 | UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is | ||
15 | available via FTP (user: ftp) from | ||
16 | <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>). | ||
17 | NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems; | ||
18 | PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-) | ||
19 | |||
20 | If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the | ||
21 | network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support | ||
22 | (but you need NFS file system support obviously). | ||
23 | |||
24 | Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a | ||
25 | good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes | ||
26 | (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man | ||
27 | tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has | ||
28 | nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about | ||
29 | the System V file system in | ||
30 | <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>. | ||
31 | Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. | ||
32 | |||
33 | To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called | ||
34 | sysv. | ||
35 | |||
36 | If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. | ||