Re: [xfs-masters] Re: [PATCH] pull XFS support out of Kconfigsubmenu

From: Russell Cattelan
Date: Thu Aug 18 2005 - 10:22:55 EST


On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 06:53 -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:45:48PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> > It seems slightly odd to me that XFS support should be in a separate
> > submenu, when all the other filesystems are not using submenus but
> > are directly selectable from the Filesystems menu.
>
> XFS also has an out-of-tree version. Making it a submenu is probably
> to make maintenance easier (ie. replace files, not merge).
>
That is why the Kconfig options for xfs moved from fs/Kconfig to
fs/xfs/Kconfig but using submenu was simply a convince thing
to group all the XFS options together.

If the submenu is really causing people distress go ahead and
remove it. Since it's a cosmetic change it's not going to impact
anything.

-Russell

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