Re: can't compile joliet as a module in 2.2.1 or 2.2.2-pre2

Gerhard Mack (gmack@imag.net)
Sun, 7 Feb 1999 21:23:00 -0800 (PST)

On 7 Feb 1999, Nat Lanza wrote:

> Gerhard Mack <gmack@imag.net> writes:
>
> > Menuconfig doesn't seem to let me set Joliet as a module on my
> > system, I really don't want this compiled in, anyone know why this is
> > happening?
>
> You haven't looked at the code in fs/isofs, have you? The Joliet code
> only gets linked directly into your kernel if the ISO9660 code does.
>
> CONFIG_JOLIET changes the way the isofs code works; it'd probably be a
> pain to make it compile to a separate module loaded by isofs.o.
>
> Also, I don't really see why making it work that way would be
> worthwhile -- the extra code involved in CONFIG_JOLIET amounts to
> about 1.5K of object code on my i686 box.
oops now I feel dumb
my applogies
Gerhard

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