[syslinux] [PATCH 0/9] linux/syslinux: support ext2/3/4 device

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/05/2015 04:14 PM, Robert Yang wrote:
> 
> On 01/06/2015 08:04 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 01/01/2015 09:05 PM, Robert Yang wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Happy New Year!
>>>
>>> These patches make syslinux/linux support ext2/3/4, and it doesn't
>>> require the root privilege, I'd like to add a separate e2fs/syslinux, if
>>> that is more appropriate, it should be easy to do that.
>>>
>>> I put these patches on github so that you can easily get them in case
>>> you'd like to test them. (The repo's name is sys_tmp, which avoids
>>> confusing others, I will remove the repo when these patches are
>>> reviewed).
>>>
>>
>> In my opinion, linux/syslinux really should just be part of extlinux,
>> since it is exactly equivalent to mounting the filesystem, running
>> extlinux, and unmounting the filesystem.  That automatically adds
>> support for all filesystems.
>>
>> mtools/syslinux is the one that doesn't require root privileges, and
>> where libext2fs belongs.  Ideally the FAT support ought to be
>> internalized into a library, too.
>>
>> The one thing with mtools/syslinux is that some people like to compile
>> it for non-Linux platforms (how successfully, I don't know) and so
>> ext*fs support should probably be conditionalized.
> 
> Thanks for the reply, how about:
> 
> 1) Add the libext2fs' syslinux to mtools/syslinux
> 2) The "make" will compile libext2fs by default, and make EXT2FS=0 will
> disable
>    the compile ?
> 

Works for me.

	-hpa