Re: [PATCH 1/1] affs: AFFS_NO_TRUNCATE added to Kconfig

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 06:22:18PM +0800, Fabian Frederick wrote:
 > Filename truncate process is defined in affs.h.
 > 
 > This patch exports current define to Kconfig and removes
 > AFFS_MAX_PREALLOC which is never used.
 > +
 > +config AFFS_NO_TRUNCATE
 > +	bool "Amiga FFS no filename truncate"
 > +	depends on AFFS_FS
 > +	default n
 > +	help
 > +	  If you say Y here, creating filesystem objects with longer names than
 > +	  30 characters (standard limit) will result in an error (ENAMETOOLONG).
 > +
 > +	  By default this option is disabled and filenames are automatically
 > +	  truncated.

I get the feeling this would be better as a mount option than a config option.
Then again, the number of people still caring about AFFS is probably in
single digits these days, so I doubt anyone would complain if this was set
one way or the other in a distribution kernel.

	Dave

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