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On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 06:26:58PM -0700, Manish Singh wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 01:40:22AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:33:03PM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote: > > >... > > > A full patch can be downloaded from: > > > http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/dist/files/patches/2.6.12-rc4/complete/ocfs2-configfs-all.patch > > >... > > > > Some comments on this patch: > > - there's no reason to make JBD user-visible > > Sure, the only reason I made it visible was because of the comment in > there: > > # CONFIG_JBD could be its own option (even modular), but until there are > # other users than ext3, we will simply make it be the same as CONFIG_EXT3_FS > > I don't really have a preference either way. I'd say the comment is wrong. > > - is there any reason why CONFIGFS_FS is user-visible? > > It's a generic mechanism for userspace driven configuration of kernel > functionality. There's nothing specific to OCFS2 about it. Other kernel > subsystems/projects could use it too, for their own configuration > mechanisms. More details are in configfs.txt, which is included in the > above patch. Note the example used in the documentation text is an NBD > driver. >... If other subsystems use it, they should select it. > -Manish cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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