[PATCH 1/2] ubifs: Kconfig: fix the description in Kconfig

Brian Norris computersforpeace at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 09:47:01 PDT 2015


On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 01:29:59PM +0800, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
> If unsure we would say 'N' rather than 'Y'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst at cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  fs/ubifs/Kconfig | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ubifs/Kconfig b/fs/ubifs/Kconfig
> index ba66d50..f9aaad1 100644
> --- a/fs/ubifs/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/ubifs/Kconfig
> @@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ config UBIFS_FS_LZO
>  	default y
>  	help
>  	   LZO compressor is generally faster than zlib but compresses worse.
> -	   Say 'Y' if unsure.
> +	   Say 'N' if unsure.

Why would we recommend 'N' yet set the default to 'Y'? Seems like
some dissonance.

Also, I'm not an expert on UBIFS, but I imagine the suggestion to say
yes is because of legacy support; what if you need to mount a file
system that was created with LZO?

>  
>  config UBIFS_FS_ZLIB
>  	bool "ZLIB compression support" if UBIFS_FS_ADVANCED_COMPR
>  	depends on UBIFS_FS
>  	default y
>  	help
> -	  Zlib compresses better than LZO but it is slower. Say 'Y' if unsure.
> +	  Zlib compresses better than LZO but it is slower. Say 'N' if unsure.

Same here.

Brian



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