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ext4: remove obsolete EXT3 config options 

In June 2015, commit c290ea01ab ("fs: Remove ext3 filesystem driver")
removed the historic ext3 filesystem support as ext3 partitions are fully
supported with the ext4 filesystem support. To simplify updating the kernel
build configuration, which had only EXT3 support but not EXT4 support
enabled, the three config options EXT3_{FS,FS_POSIX_ACL,FS_SECURITY} were
kept, instead of immediately removing them. The three options just enable
the corresponding EXT4 counterparts when configs from older kernel versions
are used to build on later kernel versions. This ensures that the kernels
from those kernel build configurations would then continue to have EXT4
enabled for supporting booting from ext3 and ext4 file systems, to avoid
potential unexpected surprises.

Given that the kernel build configuration has no backwards-compatibility
guarantee and this transition phase for such build configurations has been
in place for a decade, we can reasonably expect all such users to have
transitioned to use the EXT4 config options in their config files at this
point in time. With that in mind, the three EXT3 config options are
obsolete by now.

Remove the obsolete EXT3 config options.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Lukas Bulwahn 2025-08-27 11:08:08 +02:00 committed by Theodore Ts'o
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commit d6ace46c82
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
# Ext3 configs are here for backward compatibility with old configs which may
# have EXT3_FS set but not EXT4_FS set and thus would result in non-bootable
# kernels after the removal of ext3 driver.
config EXT3_FS
tristate "The Extended 3 (ext3) filesystem"
select EXT4_FS
help
This config option is here only for backward compatibility. ext3
filesystem is now handled by the ext4 driver.
config EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL
bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists"
depends on EXT3_FS
select EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL
select FS_POSIX_ACL
help
This config option is here only for backward compatibility. ext3
filesystem is now handled by the ext4 driver.
config EXT3_FS_SECURITY
bool "Ext3 Security Labels"
depends on EXT3_FS
select EXT4_FS_SECURITY
help
This config option is here only for backward compatibility. ext3
filesystem is now handled by the ext4 driver.
config EXT4_FS
tristate "The Extended 4 (ext4) filesystem"
select BUFFER_HEAD