From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: RFC: kill msdos and vfat modules? Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:32:52 +0200 Message-ID: <20090608073252.GA19731@lst.de> References: <20090603143200.GA5778@lst.de> <871vq0lrgh.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: OGAWA Hirofumi Return-path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:33006 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750815AbZFHHcy (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 03:32:54 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <871vq0lrgh.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.