linux-kernel - fs/Kconfig question regarding CONFIG

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Date:	Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:41:41 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	jens.axboe@...cle.com
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: fs/Kconfig question regarding CONFIG_BLOCK

(this time hopefully with a working To/Cc)
Hi,



fs/Kconfig has:

if BLOCK
menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems"
...
<stuff here>
...
endmenu
endif


Why is it wrapped into BLOCK, or, why are all of the other filesystems 
which require a block device?


	-`J'
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