Re: Menuconfig and CRAMFS

[Kristoffer E. <kri...@gm...>]

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 03:03:25 -0400 (EDT)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rp...@mi...> wrote:

> > > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Kristoffer Ericson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Greetings,
> > > >
> > > > Using menuconfig the option cramfs doesn't show up in pseudo
> > > > filesystems, this is because there's no text after 'bool'. A
> > > > simple 'bool cramfs-support' would do the trick. Since its
> > > > default y, there's currently no way to deselect it, so bug or
> > > > intentional?
> 
> we just had a brief but animated thread about this over at LKML, where
> i submitted a patch to make RAMFS selectable, and that turned out very
> badly (for me, that is :-).  AFAICT, you *need* RAMFS for building a
> kernel, so you can't choose to leave it out.
> 
> if that's truly the case, i can at least send in a patch to remove the
> misleading help text for that Kconfig entry which suggests it can be
> selected as a module.

lol, yeah really misleading text. Big thanks for clearing this up Robert.

> 
> rday
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