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Date:	Mon, 7 Jul 2008 22:41:54 +0100 (BST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] FS: Label tmpfs Kconfig option with "tmpfs".

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@...shcourse.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@...itas.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.
>  
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