Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932209AbWLLSiJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:38:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932284AbWLLSiJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:38:09 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.189]:48781 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751578AbWLLSiH (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:38:07 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qfSECaDTMD3rBj+eixd8giF894l7G0zqyE2AAFA6ZxS+CsTjTIpCsdTDck1cjtZhAM+WCq2eg8q9tCGngz1r4NN23VDN7iFPmLS+ugwsg7LcpK2laH3fpA3rbATio6Xz/LpdoqBRBQUJqqKCZQx23YureI2fV/GGnD0GIoJpLSg= Message-ID: <625fc13d0612121038l22a2b252v3d3773caa8826e41@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:38:05 -0600 From: "Josh Boyer" To: "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Delete JFFS (version 1) Cc: "Jeff Garzik" , "Linux Kernel" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, jffs-dev@axis.com, "David Woodhouse" In-Reply-To: <20061212095359.51483704.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <457EA2FE.3050206@garzik.org> <20061212095359.51483704.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1801 Lines: 50 On 12/12/06, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:39:26 -0500 > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > I have created the 'kill-jffs' branch of > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git that > > removes fs/jffs. > > > > I argue that you can count the users (who aren't on 2.4) on one hand, > > and developers don't seem to have cared for it in ages. > > > > People are already talking about jffs2 replacements, so I propose we zap > > jffs in 2.6.21. > > It would be good to provide unignorable notice of this in 2.6.20. Via a > loud printk, or perhaps even CONFIG_BROKEN or CONFIG_EMBEDDED. Something like the below? Make CONFIG_JFFS depend on CONFIG_BROKEN Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig index b3b5aa0..4ac367d 100644 --- a/fs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/Kconfig @@ -1204,13 +1204,16 @@ config EFS_FS config JFFS_FS tristate "Journalling Flash File System (JFFS) support" - depends on MTD && BLOCK + depends on MTD && BLOCK && BROKEN help JFFS is the Journalling Flash File System developed by Axis Communications in Sweden, aimed at providing a crash/powerdown-safe file system for disk-less embedded devices. Further information is available at (). + NOTE: This filesystem is deprecated and is scheduled for removal in + 2.6.21. See Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt + config JFFS_FS_VERBOSE int "JFFS debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)" depends on JFFS_FS - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/