Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932448AbWLLVtK (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:49:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932450AbWLLVtK (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:49:10 -0500 Received: from mail.clusterfs.com ([206.168.112.78]:58547 "EHLO mail.clusterfs.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932448AbWLLVtH (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:49:07 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:49:04 -0700 From: Andreas Dilger To: Josh Boyer Cc: Andrew Morton , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, jffs-dev@axis.com, David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Delete JFFS (version 1) Message-ID: <20061212214904.GR5937@schatzie.adilger.int> Mail-Followup-To: Josh Boyer , Andrew Morton , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, jffs-dev@axis.com, David Woodhouse References: <457EA2FE.3050206@garzik.org> <20061212095359.51483704.akpm@osdl.org> <625fc13d0612121038l22a2b252v3d3773caa8826e41@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <625fc13d0612121038l22a2b252v3d3773caa8826e41@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1544 Lines: 45 On Dec 12, 2006 12:38 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote: > On 12/12/06, Andrew Morton wrote: > >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 > + It would be better to have a printk in the module init, since users with upstream builds won't see the config help. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - 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/