From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264012AbUGHR05 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2004 13:26:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264097AbUGHR05 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2004 13:26:57 -0400 Received: from mail.parknet.co.jp ([210.171.160.6]:2571 "EHLO mail.parknet.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264012AbUGHR0z (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2004 13:26:55 -0400 To: Andries Brouwer Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] FAT: update document References: <87d637mxig.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20040707235007.GA5687@pclin040.win.tue.nl> From: OGAWA Hirofumi Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 02:26:43 +0900 In-Reply-To: <20040707235007.GA5687@pclin040.win.tue.nl> Message-ID: <87wu1el8a4.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andries Brouwer writes: > I am not in favour of introducing such configuration options. > > This is just the default for a mount option. No twiddling at > kernel configuration time is required or useful. > > We have too many configuration options. It is not true that the system > becomes better when there are more compile-time configuration possibilities. > Quite the contrary. > > Compilation options should select inclusion of subsystems, > modules, drivers, but not twiddle behaviour. > > [So, I would be happier if you selected a default and made everybody who > wants something else adapt her /etc/fstab, or alias for a mountfat command.] Indeed. I was forgetting the mount.fat. Probably the mount.fat can do more good choice. Also I think that kernel doesn't need to know about nls choice anymore (include a default). But users may be confused temporarily... Anyway, I'll rethink this tomorrow. Thanks a lot. -- OGAWA Hirofumi