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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)
tree0e39e7d4e06436a791cd88f2b96e01f5663ebc4c /fs
parent623fd8072c7c4d77a184bc9e35192acf480c18e4 (diff)
downloadlinux-54886a7153353ea2bf21ebfc1b8e030e71d151d7.tar.gz
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that cramfs is obsolete.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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/cramfs/Kconfig5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cramfs/Kconfig b/fs/cramfs/Kconfig
index cd06466f365e..11b29d491b7c 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.