Commit 2c6e5a83 authored by Greg KH's avatar Greg KH Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[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: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 9527cc77

fs/Kconfig

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	Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.



config DEVFS_FS

	bool "/dev file system support (OBSOLETE)"

	depends on EXPERIMENTAL

	help

	  This is support for devfs, a virtual file system (like /proc) which

	  provides the file system interface to device drivers, normally found

	  in /dev. Devfs does not depend on major and minor number

	  allocations. Device drivers register entries in /dev which then

	  appear automatically, which means that the system administrator does

	  not have to create character and block special device files in the

	  /dev directory using the mknod command (or MAKEDEV script) anymore.



	  This is work in progress. If you want to use this, you *must* read

	  the material in <file:Documentation/filesystems/devfs/>, especially

	  the file README there.



	  Note that devfs no longer manages /dev/pts!  If you are using UNIX98

	  ptys, you will also need to mount the /dev/pts filesystem (devpts).



	  Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev,

	  <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/>.

	  It has been stripped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for

	  legacy installations that use its naming scheme which is

	  unfortunately different from the names normal Linux installations

	  use.



	  If unsure, say N.



config DEVFS_MOUNT

	bool "Automatically mount at boot"

	depends on DEVFS_FS

	help

	  This option appears if you have CONFIG_DEVFS_FS enabled. Setting

	  this to 'Y' will make the kernel automatically mount devfs onto /dev

	  when the system is booted, before the init thread is started.

	  You can override this with the "devfs=nomount" boot option.



	  If unsure, say N.



config DEVFS_DEBUG

	bool "Debug devfs"

	depends on DEVFS_FS

	help

	  If you say Y here, then the /dev file system code will generate

	  debugging messages. See the file

	  <file:Documentation/filesystems/devfs/boot-options> for more

	  details.



	  If unsure, say N.



config DEVPTS_FS_XATTR

	bool "/dev/pts Extended Attributes"

	depends on UNIX98_PTYS

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