From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932245AbVHRPWj (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:22:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932251AbVHRPWi (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:22:38 -0400 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:9389 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932245AbVHRPWh (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:22:37 -0400 Subject: Re: [xfs-masters] Re: [PATCH] pull XFS support out of Kconfig submenu From: Russell Cattelan To: xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com Cc: Jesper Juhl , nathans@sgi.com, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050818135356.GA16845@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <200508172245.49043.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> <20050818135356.GA16845@taniwha.stupidest.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:22:26 -0500 Message-Id: <1124378546.25069.107.camel@naboo.americas.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3-4mdk Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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