From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phillip Lougher Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: use menuconfig to control the Misc. filesystems menu Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:45:56 +0000 Message-ID: <492C8024.3030700@lougher.demon.co.uk> References: <492C736F.8000308@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm , Al Viro To: Randy Dunlap Return-path: Received: from anchor-post-1.mail.demon.net ([195.173.77.132]:51388 "EHLO anchor-post-1.mail.demon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751386AbYKYWpw (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:45:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: <492C736F.8000308@oracle.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Randy Dunlap wrote: > Have one option to control Miscellaneous filesystems. > This makes it easy to disable all of them at one time. > -menu "Miscellaneous filesystems" > +menuconfig MISC_FILESYSTEMS > + bool "Miscellaneous filesystems" > + default y > + ---help--- > + Say Y here to get to see options for various miscellaneous > + filesystems, such as filesystems that came from other > + operating systems. > + I have no particular issue against adding this option, but the help message is misleading. The miscellaneous submenu also contains (mainly) embedded filesystems such as jffs2, cramfs, romfs and eCrypt which are native to Linux. The help message should be changed, or perhaps these filesystems moved into a new submenu of their own. Phillip