Since CONFIG_RAMFS is currently hard-selected to "y", and since
Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt reads as follows:
"The amount of code required to implement ramfs is tiny, because all
the work is done by the existing Linux caching infrastructure.
Basically, you're mounting the disk cache as a filesystem. Because of
this, ramfs is not an optional component removable via menuconfig,
since there would be negligible space savings."
it seems pointless to leave this as a Kconfig entry.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
this also allows almost 300 "CONFIG_RAMFS=y" lines to be dropped
from various defconfig files. and that horribly misleading Kconfig
help text disappears as well. :-)
compile tested under i386.
fs/Kconfig | 14 --------------
fs/Makefile | 2 +-
fs/ramfs/Makefile | 2 +-
3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 58a0650..60d859b 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -1002,20 +1002,6 @@ config HUGETLBFS
config HUGETLB_PAGE
def_bool HUGETLBFS
-config RAMFS
- bool
- default y
- ---help---
- Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows
- read and write access.
-
- It is more of an programming example than a useable file system. If
- you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use
- tmpfs.
-
- To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
- ramfs.
-
config CONFIGFS_FS
tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL
diff --git a/fs/Makefile b/fs/Makefile
index 720c29d..500cf15 100644
--- a/fs/Makefile
+++ b/fs/Makefile
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_JBD) += jbd/
obj-$(CONFIG_JBD2) += jbd2/
obj-$(CONFIG_EXT2_FS) += ext2/
obj-$(CONFIG_CRAMFS) += cramfs/
-obj-$(CONFIG_RAMFS) += ramfs/
+obj-y += ramfs/
obj-$(CONFIG_HUGETLBFS) += hugetlbfs/
obj-$(CONFIG_CODA_FS) += coda/
obj-$(CONFIG_MINIX_FS) += minix/
diff --git a/fs/ramfs/Makefile b/fs/ramfs/Makefile
index 5a0236e..c71e65d 100644
--- a/fs/ramfs/Makefile
+++ b/fs/ramfs/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
# Makefile for the linux ramfs routines.
#
-obj-$(CONFIG_RAMFS) += ramfs.o
+obj-y += ramfs.o
file-mmu-y := file-nommu.o
file-mmu-$(CONFIG_MMU) := file-mmu.o
--
========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
http://crashcourse.ca
========================================================================
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