From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: use menuconfig to control the Misc. filesystems menu Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:53:47 -0800 Message-ID: <492C81FB.2060004@oracle.com> References: <492C736F.8000308@oracle.com> <492C8024.3030700@lougher.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm , Al Viro To: Phillip Lougher Return-path: Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:63321 "EHLO acsinet12.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752477AbYKYWyw (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:54:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: <492C8024.3030700@lougher.demon.co.uk> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Phillip Lougher wrote: > 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 OK, I'll be glad to change the help message. (awaiting other comments) Thanks.