[PATCH] kernel: improve description of NTFS kernel packages

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 2 12:26:33 PDT 2022


From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>

This helps choosing the right NTFS driver from two available options.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
---
 package/kernel/linux/modules/fs.mk | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package/kernel/linux/modules/fs.mk b/package/kernel/linux/modules/fs.mk
index d7f36ba4e0..ac2131e04a 100644
--- a/package/kernel/linux/modules/fs.mk
+++ b/package/kernel/linux/modules/fs.mk
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ $(eval $(call KernelPackage,fs-nfsd))
 
 define KernelPackage/fs-ntfs
   SUBMENU:=$(FS_MENU)
-  TITLE:=NTFS filesystem support
+  TITLE:=NTFS filesystem read-only (old driver) support
   KCONFIG:=CONFIG_NTFS_FS
   FILES:=$(LINUX_DIR)/fs/ntfs/ntfs.ko
   AUTOLOAD:=$(call AutoLoad,30,ntfs)
@@ -518,7 +518,8 @@ define KernelPackage/fs-ntfs
 endef
 
 define KernelPackage/fs-ntfs/description
- Kernel module for NTFS filesystem support
+ Kernel module for limited NTFS filesystem support. Support for writing
+ is extremely limited and disabled as a result.
 endef
 
 $(eval $(call KernelPackage,fs-ntfs))
@@ -526,7 +527,7 @@ $(eval $(call KernelPackage,fs-ntfs))
 
 define KernelPackage/fs-ntfs3
   SUBMENU:=$(FS_MENU)
-  TITLE:=Ntfs3 support
+  TITLE:=NTFS filesystem read & write (new driver) support
   KCONFIG:= CONFIG_NTFS3_FS CONFIG_NTFS3_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
   FILES:=$(LINUX_DIR)/fs/ntfs3/ntfs3.ko
   $(call AddDepends/nls)
@@ -535,7 +536,10 @@ define KernelPackage/fs-ntfs3
 endef
 
 define KernelPackage/fuse/description
- Kernel module for new NTFS3 filesystem support
+ Kernel module for fully functional NTFS filesystem support. It allows
+ reading as well as writing.
+
+ It supports NTFS versions up to 3.1.
 endef
 
 $(eval $(call KernelPackage,fs-ntfs3))
-- 
2.34.1




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