Re: [CFT] [1/15] table-driven filesystems option parsing

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:21:05 -0400 Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com> wrote:

| On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 14:56, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
| 
| > Current (full) patch is at
| > http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/patches/linux-260t4g-fsoptions.patch
| > 
| > These patches apply to 2.6.0-test4 or -current (Sept. 5/2003).
| > 
| > I have tested ext3, ext3, fat, isofs, jfs, & proc.
| > 
| > I'd appreciate others testing all of these, please, especially
| > the ones that I can't test (adfs, affs, hfs, hpfs, ufd, ufs,
| > autofs[4]).
| 
| As a filesystem maintainer, I like the idea of this patch! However, I
| think it could use some comments on useage in the header file. There are
| already too many filesystem interfaces where the only documentation on
| how to use them is the way that existing filesystems use them.
| 
| Below is a patch to convert befs to use parser.h. It kills some of my
| least favorite code (yay!).
| 
| The patch is tested a certain minimal amount (booted, mounted a
| filesystem with options).

Thanks for the patch and comments.  I'll try to add some usage docs
to it also.

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~Randy