Update Kconfig and add a depricated warning. Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/autofs4/Kconfig | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/autofs4/Kconfig b/fs/autofs4/Kconfig index 1204d63..f74d317 100644 --- a/fs/autofs4/Kconfig +++ b/fs/autofs4/Kconfig @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ config AUTOFS4_FS - tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)" + tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)" help The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce @@ -7,14 +7,24 @@ config AUTOFS4_FS automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from - <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also - want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. + <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/>; you also want + to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. - To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be - called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your - modules configuration file. + This module is in the process of being renamed from autofs4 to autofs + since is now the only module that provides the autofs file system and + the module is not version 4 specific. - If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or - don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the - local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say - N here. + It is now built from the source located in fs/autofs and this directory + and the configuration entry will be removed two kernel version from the + inclusion of this change. + + Changes that will need to be made should be limited to: + - source include statments should be changed from autofs_fs4.h to + autofs_fs.h since these two header file have been merged. + - user space scripts that manually load autofs4.ko should be changed + to load autofs.ko. Since the module directory name and the module + name itself are the same now there is no need to manually load + module. + - any "alias autofs autofs4" will need to be removed. + + Please configure AUTOFS_FS instead of AUTOFS4_FS from now on. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
