Re: [PATCH/RFC] Delete JFFS (version 1)

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On Dec 12, 2006  12:38 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On 12/12/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> 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 <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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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