On Dec 12, 2006 12:38 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On 12/12/06, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
>
> 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 (<http://developer.axis.com/software/jffs/>).
>
> + 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.
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