[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>

diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 6a4ad4b..178e274 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -741,56 +741,6 @@ config SYSFS
 
        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