[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/4] fs/ext2: add ability to build ext3/4 too

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Tue Feb 19 12:03:10 UTC 2013


>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:

Hi,

 >> if BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2
 >> 
 >> +choice
 >> +	bool "ext generation"

 Arnout>  Given the way it appears in menuconfig, I think this will be hard to
 Arnout> understand for many users. Perhaps "ext generation (ext2, ext3 or
 Arnout> ext4)".

Or simply ext variant?

 >> +	default BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_2

 Arnout>  Although this matches the current default, doesn't it make
 Arnout> more sense to "bump" to ext4?

Possibly. It would break existing configs though.

 >> +config BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_2
 >> +	bool "ext2"
 >> +
 >> +config BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_3
 >> +	bool "ext3"
 >> +	select BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_E2FSPROGS

 Arnout>  We don't usually select the host package. On the other hand, the
 Arnout> support for user-selectable host packages is pretty recent, so we
 Arnout> don't have a real tradition for this.

 Arnout>  Peter?

I would argue that we should keep kconfig and makefiles consistent when
possible, so when we have a user selectable host package (kconfig
symbol), we should select it.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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