Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 05:08:11 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.15-git2: CONFIGFS_FS shows up as M/y choice, help says "if unsure, say N"
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On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 06:16:30PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 11:09:59PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:30:32PM -0800, Joel Becker wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:10:13PM +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> > > > If unsure, say N.
> > > > ===========
> > > > 
> > > > I think I'll say M - for now ;)
> > > 
> > > 	If you choose something depending on CONFIGFS_FS, you of course
> > > don't get the choice of 'N'.  Here's a cleanup also available at
> > > http://oss.oracle.com/git/ocfs2-dev.git
> > 
> > I don't know whether I already asked this question (if I did it seems 
> > I've forgotten the answer...):
> > 
> > Why is CONFIGFS_FS a user-visible option?
> 
> I think it should be the same as SYSFS, only changable from the EMBEDDED
> portion.

No, my thoughts got in exactly the opposite direction:

It should not be available except when explicitely select'ed by a driver 
with support for it.

But I got the point that an option is required for stuff not yet merged 
into the kernel.

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

cu
Adrian

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