[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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
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config DEVFS_FS
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bool "/dev file system support (OBSOLETE)"
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depends on EXPERIMENTAL
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help
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This is support for devfs, a virtual file system (like /proc) which
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provides the file system interface to device drivers, normally found
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in /dev. Devfs does not depend on major and minor number
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allocations. Device drivers register entries in /dev which then
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appear automatically, which means that the system administrator does
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not have to create character and block special device files in the
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/dev directory using the mknod command (or MAKEDEV script) anymore.
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This is work in progress. If you want to use this, you *must* read
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the material in <file:Documentation/filesystems/devfs/>, especially
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the file README there.
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Note that devfs no longer manages /dev/pts! If you are using UNIX98
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ptys, you will also need to mount the /dev/pts filesystem (devpts).
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Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev,
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<http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/>.
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It has been stripped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for
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legacy installations that use its naming scheme which is
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unfortunately different from the names normal Linux installations
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use.
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If unsure, say N.
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config DEVFS_MOUNT
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bool "Automatically mount at boot"
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depends on DEVFS_FS
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help
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This option appears if you have CONFIG_DEVFS_FS enabled. Setting
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this to 'Y' will make the kernel automatically mount devfs onto /dev
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when the system is booted, before the init thread is started.
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You can override this with the "devfs=nomount" boot option.
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If unsure, say N.
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config DEVFS_DEBUG
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bool "Debug devfs"
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depends on DEVFS_FS
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help
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If you say Y here, then the /dev file system code will generate
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debugging messages. See the file
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<file:Documentation/filesystems/devfs/boot-options> for more
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details.
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If unsure, say N.
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config DEVPTS_FS_XATTR
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bool "/dev/pts Extended Attributes"
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depends on UNIX98_PTYS
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