On 20/04/20 16:28, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> I assume you meant a new file. These new functions are used only by a few >> filesystems, and I didn't want to include them in vmlinux unconditionally, >> so I introduced simplefs.c and CONFIG_SIMPLEFS instead of extending libfs.c. >> In this way only fs that need this code like debugfs and tracefs will load >> it. > Nothing "loads it", why not just make these libfs functions instead? As > the difference between the two is not obvious at all, please don't make > things confusing. I think Emanuele meant "will link it" not "will load it". Emanuele, you can just move everything to libfs.c and get rid of CONFIG_SIMPLEFS too. "Do less" is not an offer you want to turn down! Thanks, Paolo