linux-kernel - Re: config EXT4DEV

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Date:	Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:46:42 -0500
From:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...tin.ibm.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Subject: Re: config EXT4DEV_FS question

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 20:37 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Then I suggest removing the bogus part, as per following patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@....de>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...tin.ibm.com>

> 
> Index: linux-2.6.19-rc2/fs/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.19-rc2.orig/fs/Kconfig
> +++ linux-2.6.19-rc2/fs/Kconfig
> @@ -12,9 +12,7 @@ config EXT2_FS
>  	  Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks.
>  
>  	  To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
> -	  module will be called ext2.  Be aware however that the file system
> -	  of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot
> -	  be compiled as a module, and so this could be dangerous.
> +	  module will be called ext2.
>  
>  	  If unsure, say Y.
>  
> @@ -98,9 +96,7 @@ config EXT3_FS
>  	  (available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs/>).
>  
>  	  To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
> -	  module will be called ext3.  Be aware however that the file system
> -	  of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot
> -	  be compiled as a module, and so this may be dangerous.
> +	  module will be called ext3.
>  
>  config EXT3_FS_XATTR
>  	bool "Ext3 extended attributes"
> @@ -163,9 +159,7 @@ config EXT4DEV_FS
>  	  features will be added to ext4dev gradually.
>  
>  	  To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The
> -	  module will be called ext4dev.  Be aware, however, that the filesystem
> -	  of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot
> -	  be compiled as a module, and so this could be dangerous.
> +	  module will be called ext4dev.
>  
>  	  If unsure, say N.
>  
> #<EOF>
> 
> 
> 	-`J'
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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