Re: RFC: kill msdos and vfat modules?

[OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>]

Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 10:26:22AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>> > There's almost no code left in the msdos and vfat modules with all
>> > the guts in the shared fat module.  Shouldn't we just do away with
>> > the vfat and msdos modules and just provide module aliases in the
>> > main fat module?
>> 
>> I have no objection to it if it works. Maybe, one concern is the order
>> of detection (rootfs, /proc/filesystems) when it's not moudle. (however,
>> probably it's not hard to control).
>
> For the non-modular case detection order is already determined by link
> order, so nothing would change, at least if we still keep config options
> to allow for 8.3 vs vfat naming.  Then again the former is so simple
> that we could always compile it in anyway.

If modules was merged to one, msdos and vfat in fs/Makefile will be
merged too. If so, it will not define the link order anymore.  Anyway,
nothing would be hard, but, I guess there is the change which need to care.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>