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Re: different configs for 386 and 686 kernel



Marcel Kolaja <mkolaja@mistral.cz> wrote:
> I am trying to finetune kernel to fit more my needs. Studying the config
> files for Debian kernels I found out, the 386 kernel has CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
> but the 686 kernel has CONFIG_EXT2_FS=m. This is intention or mistake? Why
> do we want to have the ext2fs support compiled directly in the kernel and
> not as a module in the 386 subarchitecture?

> (I am talking about the 2.4.20-3 kernel image packages.)

Seems to be a bug in 386, because it might make it impossible to mount
/ as ext3 if ext3 is built as module and ext2 is not.
                 cu andreas



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