On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 02:30:38PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 10:03:15AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > I haven't found any reason why CONFIGFS_FS is user-visible.
> > Other parts of the kernel using configfs should simply select it.
>
> Doesn't work for external modules that might want to use it.
> Imagine that configfs gets merged before OCFS2, which depends on it.
I was surprised if configfs was merged with zero users in the kernel.
But I get your point, what about the patch below?
> Joel
cu
Adrian
<-- snip -->
Make it clear that users usually shouldn't manually enable CONFIGFS_FS.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
--- linux-2.6.12-mm2-full/fs/Kconfig.old 2005-06-30 01:51:51.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.12-mm2-full/fs/Kconfig 2005-06-30 01:54:01.000000000 +0200
@@ -934,13 +934,11 @@
tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
help
- configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse
- of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based
- view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager
- of kernel objects, or config_items.
+ This option is provided for the case where no in-kernel-tree
+ modules require configfs, but a module built outside the kernel
+ tree does. Such modules require Y or M here.
- Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the
- same system. One is not a replacement for the other.
+ If unsure, say N.
config RELAYFS_FS
tristate "Relayfs file system support"
-
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