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

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Subject: [xfs-masters] Re: [PATCH] pull XFS support out of Kconfig submenu
From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:22:26 -0500
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx>, nathans@xxxxxxx, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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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