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that cramfs is obsolete.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>

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 051e4dc5b70fe03d9d5a5827b00dd12b0927c1f0..f5867f469f13321107e2dfbffe9996d361c1918a 100644 (file)
--- 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 cd06466f365ea53619afb313cd87befdc5221db5..11b29d491b7c5856fa68937eccf9529b9c1b0523 100644 (file)
--- 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.