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

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

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).
> 

Where the Kconfig is vs. where the menu appears are 2 different things 
though.  The latest kernel has our own Kconfig in fs/xfs, and fs/Kconfig 
just does:

source "fs/xfs/Kconfig"

This does facilitate swapping in a devel version of fs/xfs via a 
symlink, etc.

However, fs/xfs/Kconfig does still start with

menu "XFS support"

which puts it in a submenu, unlike every other fs.

I have no problem with removing the submenu.

-Eric