[GIT PULL 04/19 for v7.4] vfs bfs

[Christian Brauner]

Hey Linus,

/* Summary */

This removes bfs, the filesystem UnixWare uses for its boot partition.
It only supports contiguous files and has no subdirectories. The only
data on such a partition are kernels and bootloader settings so there
is no reason to access it from Linux anymore. The uapi header stays.

/* Testing */

No build failures or warnings were observed.

/* Conflicts */

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The following changes since commit cee9395acd8043be0644b25c34bfa86623f2b935:

  Linux 7.3-rc1 (2026-08-30 13:34:40 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs tags/vfs-7.4-rc1.bfs

for you to fetch changes up to e36781a626b2708d42a188f6274f1c7897251f1f:

  bfs: remove the filesystem (2026-09-04 12:43:07 +0200)

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vfs-7.4-rc1.bfs

Please consider pulling these changes from the signed vfs-7.4-rc1.bfs tag.

Thanks!
Christian

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Ethan Nelson-Moore (1):
      bfs: remove the filesystem

 CREDITS                                            |   2 +-
 Documentation/filesystems/befs.rst                 |   4 +-
 Documentation/filesystems/bfs.rst                  |  60 ---
 Documentation/filesystems/index.rst                |   1 -
 MAINTAINERS                                        |   7 -
 arch/mips/configs/malta_defconfig                  |   1 -
 arch/mips/configs/malta_kvm_defconfig              |   1 -
 arch/mips/configs/maltaup_xpa_defconfig            |   1 -
 arch/mips/configs/rm200_defconfig                  |   1 -
 arch/powerpc/configs/fsl-emb-nonhw.config          |   1 -
 arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig              |   1 -
 fs/Kconfig                                         |   1 -
 fs/Makefile                                        |   1 -
 fs/bfs/Kconfig                                     |  21 -
 fs/bfs/Makefile                                    |   8 -
 fs/bfs/bfs.h                                       |  69 ---
 fs/bfs/dir.c                                       | 356 --------------
 fs/bfs/file.c                                      | 203 --------
 fs/bfs/inode.c                                     | 538 ---------------------
 .../filesystems/statmount/statmount_test.c         |   2 +-
 20 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1275 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/bfs.rst
 delete mode 100644 fs/bfs/Kconfig
 delete mode 100644 fs/bfs/Makefile
 delete mode 100644 fs/bfs/bfs.h
 delete mode 100644 fs/bfs/dir.c
 delete mode 100644 fs/bfs/file.c
 delete mode 100644 fs/bfs/inode.c