Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 10:26:22AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: >> > There's almost no code left in the msdos and vfat modules with all >> > the guts in the shared fat module. Shouldn't we just do away with >> > the vfat and msdos modules and just provide module aliases in the >> > main fat module? >> >> I have no objection to it if it works. Maybe, one concern is the order >> of detection (rootfs, /proc/filesystems) when it's not moudle. (however, >> probably it's not hard to control). > > For the non-modular case detection order is already determined by link > order, so nothing would change, at least if we still keep config options > to allow for 8.3 vs vfat naming. Then again the former is so simple > that we could always compile it in anyway. If modules was merged to one, msdos and vfat in fs/Makefile will be merged too. If so, it will not define the link order anymore. Anyway, nothing would be hard, but, I guess there is the change which need to care. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
