Re: Bug#149281: Module selection "many different filesystems" broken
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 06:51:35PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > In the module installation submenu, the line item "drivers that
> > allow many different filesystems" returns a codepage selection menu
> > instead. Shux, I wanted to be able to read files from an MSDOS
>
> Well, what is the problem? You enter the filesystems menu, there is nfs,
> ntfs and minix among helper modules to use different charsets correctly.
>
> > FAT-16 partition on this system. At least that was what I thought
> > this was going to offer (amongst other filesystem options).
>
> Why do you not just MOUNT the filesystem? AFAIK, the driver is already
> built-in into the kernel and does not have to be loaded manually.
This kind of thing keeps coming up. How would I go about documenting
what's already 'in there' for people? I know we have the dialog that
says stuff might already be in there, but I mean producing a list of
what people are used to seeing as modules which are built-in for each
kernel we supply. Can I get this by grepping config files?
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