From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [PATCH 42/42] ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4 Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:04:44 -0700 Message-ID: <48F122FC.6040107@goop.org> References: <1223525160-9887-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1223525160-9887-26-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1223525160-9887-27-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1223525160-9887-28-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1223525160-9887-29-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1223525160-9887-30-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1223525160-9887-31-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1223525160-9887-32-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1223525160-9887-33-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1223525160-9887-34-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1223525160-9887-35-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1223525160-9887-36-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1223525160-9887-37-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1223525160-9887-38-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1223525160-9887-39-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1223525160-9887-40-git-send-email-tyts o@mit.edu> <1223525160-9887-41-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1223525160-9887-42-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1223525160-9887-43-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Ts'o Return-path: Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:40712 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755338AbYJKWEr (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:04:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1223525160-9887-43-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Theodore Ts'o wrote: > The ext4 filesystem is getting stable enough that it's time to drop > the "dev" prefix. Also remove the requirement for the TEST_FILESYS > flag. > Shouldn't you still register "ext4dev" as a filesystem type, so that old setups won't suddenly break? I just had this happen to me; I had to work out why /home didn't mount. > +obj-$(CONFIG_EXT4_FS) += ext4/ # Before ext2 so root fs can be ext4dev > s/ext4dev/ext4/ J