David Howells wrote on Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 09:41:37AM +0100: > Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I see later patches make AFS and FSCACHE select NETFS_SUPPORT. If this > > is just a library of functions, to be selected by its users, then please > > make the symbol invisible. > > Ideally, yes, it would be an invisible symbol enabled by select from the > network filesystems that use it - but doing that means that you can't choose > whether to build it in or build it as a module. Afaik such dependencies are then built as a module if everything it depends on are modules, and built-in if any of these are built-in. I think most users would be fine with that -- there's little reason to have netfs built-in if AFS ceph etc all are modules? -- Dominique
