linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 26/26] UBIFS: include FS to compilation

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Message-ID: <20080428130245.GA2798@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:02:45 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@...ia.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...dex.ru>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 26/26] UBIFS: include FS to compilation

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 03:25:29PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> At one stage Artem had set up sysfs entries for UBIFS so that he could change
> debugging options via sysfs on the fly, without even unmounting.  But he said
> he didn't find it that useful and removed it all.
>
> For myself, recompiling UBIFS only takes 25 seconds so changing config options
> is not a big deal.
>
> However I have no problem adding a mount option, although I suspect we might
> end up being asked to remove it.

module_param is probably easier and more useful, that way it can be set
at module load/boot time and be changed later in sysfs.
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