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that cramfs is obsolete.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>

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index ffcaf975bed7e399197e0fd93c761d9ff7c8570d..5049b1c66d44b22ec05642bdd05e0e840e9ae3ae 100644 (file)
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -2372,7 +2372,7 @@ 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..15c36feceeba993bcc101743e44dc50057d823b4 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.