Re: [xfs-masters] Re: [PATCH] pull XFS support out of Kconfig submenu

From: Eric Sandeen
Date: Thu Aug 18 2005 - 10:23:30 EST


Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:45:48PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:


It seems slightly odd to me that XFS support should be in a separate
submenu, when all the other filesystems are not using submenus but
are directly selectable from the Filesystems menu.


XFS also has an out-of-tree version. Making it a submenu is probably
to make maintenance easier (ie. replace files, not merge).


Where the Kconfig is vs. where the menu appears are 2 different things though. The latest kernel has our own Kconfig in fs/xfs, and fs/Kconfig just does:

source "fs/xfs/Kconfig"

This does facilitate swapping in a devel version of fs/xfs via a symlink, etc.

However, fs/xfs/Kconfig does still start with

menu "XFS support"

which puts it in a submenu, unlike every other fs.

I have no problem with removing the submenu.

-Eric
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