Re: 2.1.111pre1 compile errors

Jon M. Taylor (taylorj@ecs.csus.edu)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:22:36 -0700 (PDT)


On 23 Jul 1998, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:

> >>>>> "Jon" == Jon M Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu> writes:
>
> Jon> # CONFIG_FAT_FS is not set
> Jon> CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
> Jon> # CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS is not set
> Jon> CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
>
> The problem is the missing CONFIG_FAT_FS. In linux/fs/Config.in,
> CONFIG_MSDOS_FS, CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS and CONFIG_VFAT_FS are all dependent
> on CONFIG_FAT_FS, so it should be impossible to choose them w/o also
> choosing CONFIG_FAT_FS.

Huh. It isn't, as you can see. Why is CONFIG_FAT_FS even a
separate option? Couldn't it be automatically made if any of the three
CONFIG_ targets that depend on it are selected? Is there any use to
having CONFIG_FAT_FS enabled without any of the others?

> Which fooconfig did you make(1)?

Menuconfig.

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