linux-kernel - Re: ext2, ext3, ext4 config headlines inconsistent:

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Message-ID: <20081016151559.GB12962@mit.edu>
Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:15:59 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext2, ext3, ext4 config headlines inconsistent:

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:37:23AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Hi Ted,
> 
> While running an oldconfig with the new kernel, I got the following prompt:
> 
>     Second extended fs support (EXT2_FS) [N/m/y/?] n
>     Ext3 journalling file system support (EXT3_FS) [N/m/y/?] n
>     The Extended 4 (ext4) filesystem (EXT4_FS) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) n
> 
> the lack of parallelism in the headline prompts is a little jarring.
> Any interest in a patch to make this look uniform, or is it not worth
> it?  If you are interested, which variant do you prefer?

I'll note that we don't have consistency across all of the entries in
fs/Kconfig, not just ext2/ext3/ext4.  If it were just up to me I'd
probably prefer:

    Ext2 file system support (EXT2_FS) [N/m/y/?] n
    Ext3 file system support (EXT3_FS) [N/m/y/?] n
    Ext4 file system support (EXT4_FS) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) n

... but it might be worth looking at the other entries in fs/Kconfig
as well.

						- Ted
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