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From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH] fs: use menuconfig to control the Misc. filesystems menu
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:51:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <492C736F.8000308@oracle.com> (raw)

Subject:   [PATCH] fs: use menuconfig to control the Misc. filesystems menu
To:        linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc:        akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Bcc:       
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From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

Have one option to control Miscellaneous filesystems.
This makes it easy to disable all of them at one time.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
---

Was this already attempted?  If so, was there any problem with it?

 fs/Kconfig |   17 +++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- linux-next-20081125.orig/fs/Kconfig
+++ linux-next-20081125/fs/Kconfig
@@ -758,7 +758,20 @@ config CONFIGFS_FS
 
 endmenu
 
-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.
+
+	  This option alone does not add any kernel code.
+
+	  If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and
+	  disabled; if unsure, say Y here.
+
+if MISC_FILESYSTEMS
 
 config ADFS_FS
 	tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
@@ -1128,7 +1141,7 @@ config UFS_DEBUG
 	  Y here.  This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be
 	  written to the system log.
 
-endmenu
+endif # MISC_FILESYSTEMS
 
 menuconfig NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
 	bool "Network File Systems"

             reply	other threads:[~2008-11-25 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-25 21:51 Randy Dunlap [this message]
2008-11-25 22:45 ` [PATCH] fs: use menuconfig to control the Misc. filesystems menu Phillip Lougher
2008-11-25 22:53   ` Randy Dunlap

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