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authorMichael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>2013-11-12 15:08:35 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-11-13 12:09:12 +0900
commit54886a7153353ea2bf21ebfc1b8e030e71d151d7 (patch)
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parent623fd8072c7c4d77a184bc9e35192acf480c18e4 (diff)
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cramfs: mark as obsolete
Who needs cramfs when you have squashfs? At least, we should warn people that cramfs is obsolete. Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--MAINTAINERS2
-rw-r--r--fs/cramfs/Kconfig5
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 051e4dc..f5867f4 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -2373,7 +2373,7 @@ F: kernel/cpuset.c
CRAMFS FILESYSTEM
W: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cramfs/
-S: Orphan
+S: Orphan / Obsolete
F: Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt
F: fs/cramfs/
diff --git a/fs/cramfs/Kconfig b/fs/cramfs/Kconfig
index cd06466..11b29d4 100644
--- a/fs/cramfs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/cramfs/Kconfig
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
config CRAMFS
- tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)"
+ tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs) (OBSOLETE)"
depends on BLOCK
select ZLIB_INFLATE
help
@@ -16,4 +16,7 @@ config CRAMFS
cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the
directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
+ This filesystem is obsoleted by SquashFS, which is much better
+ in terms of performance and features.
+
If unsure, say N.
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