[PATCH] FS: Label tmpfs Kconfig option with "tmpfs".

[PATCH] FS: Label tmpfs Kconfig option with "tmpfs".

[Robert P. J. Day]

Make it clear that the Kconfig option refers to "tmpfs".

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>

---

  if people haven't yet figured out that this used to be shm fs, they
probably don't need to know.


diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 2694648..9360b69 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -979,7 +979,7 @@ config SYSFS
 	Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.

 config TMPFS
-	bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
+	bool "tmpfs support (Virtual memory file system)"
 	help
 	  Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.

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Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry:
    Have classroom, will lecture.

http://crashcourse.ca                          Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
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Re: [PATCH] FS: Label tmpfs Kconfig option with "tmpfs".

[Hugh Dickins]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> Make it clear that the Kconfig option refers to "tmpfs".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>

It's so long since I used anything but "make oldconfig", which
already shows TMPFS, making your mod seem redundant.  But you're right,
menuconfig and xconfig don't show it, so your change is a good one.

Though for the moment I can only give you
acked-by: hugh dickins <hugh@veritas.com>:
the next entry is for "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists"
so I'd rather you say "Tmpfs support (virtual memory file system)",
then you can uppercase my ack.

hugh

> 
> ---
> 
>   if people haven't yet figured out that this used to be shm fs, they
> probably don't need to know.
> 
> 
> diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
> index 2694648..9360b69 100644
> --- a/fs/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/Kconfig
> @@ -979,7 +979,7 @@ config SYSFS
>  	Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
> 
>  config TMPFS
> -	bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
> +	bool "tmpfs support (Virtual memory file system)"
>  	help
>  	  Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
>  

Re: [PATCH] FS: Label tmpfs Kconfig option with "tmpfs".

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > Make it clear that the Kconfig option refers to "tmpfs".
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
>
> It's so long since I used anything but "make oldconfig", which
> already shows TMPFS, making your mod seem redundant.  But you're right,
> menuconfig and xconfig don't show it, so your change is a good one.
>
> Though for the moment I can only give you
> acked-by: hugh dickins <hugh@veritas.com>:
> the next entry is for "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists"
> so I'd rather you say "Tmpfs support (virtual memory file system)",
> then you can uppercase my ack.

or i could change the next line to read "tmpfs" rather than "Tmpfs".
:-)  does anyone have any strong feelings either way?

rday
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Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry:
    Have classroom, will lecture.

http://crashcourse.ca                          Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
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