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From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: kill msdos and vfat modules?
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:20:40 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlciapd3.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090608073252.GA19731@lst.de> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:32:52 +0200")

Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:

> 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.

If modules was merged to one, msdos and vfat in fs/Makefile will be
merged too. If so, it will not define the link order anymore.  Anyway,
nothing would be hard, but, I guess there is the change which need to care.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-08 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-03 14:32 RFC: kill msdos and vfat modules? Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-04  1:26 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-06-08  7:32   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-08 12:20     ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]

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