compiling ext2fs into a kernel

[Lowell Gilbert]

"DG" <david at fielden.com.au> writes:

> My first question is: what documentation is there on the available kernel
> options?

[I don't run 5.x, but...]
I thought that was supposed to be a NOTES file in the conf directory.
Looks like it doesn't include EXT2FS; that might be worth a bug report.

> My second question (coming from a different open source UNIX-like operating
> system background) is: how does one specify to compile a 5.1 feature as a
> module as opposed to directly into the kernel, or are all module-capable
> features automatically compiled as modules?

The latter should be the case by default.