From 54886a7153353ea2bf21ebfc1b8e030e71d151d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Opdenacker Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:08:35 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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 At least, we should warn people that cramfs is obsolete.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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- MAINTAINERS | 2 +- fs/cramfs/Kconfig | 5 ++++- 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. -- 2.7.4