From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: OGAWA Hirofumi Subject: Re: RFC: kill msdos and vfat modules? Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:20:40 +0900 Message-ID: <87zlciapd3.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> References: <20090603143200.GA5778@lst.de> <871vq0lrgh.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20090608073252.GA19731@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from mail.parknet.ad.jp ([210.171.162.6]:35641 "EHLO mail.officemail.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754595AbZFHMUo (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 08:20:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090608073252.GA19731@lst.de> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:32:52 +0200") Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Christoph Hellwig 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. -- OGAWA Hirofumi