On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 19:56 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:31:51PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > + tristate > > > + depends on NFS_FS && NFS_V4_1 > > > + default m > > > > Should be 'default y', otherwise it has an implicit dependency on > > CONFIG_MODULES. > > No, it should not have a default statement at all. The only reason to > put in a default statement is to keep existing code working when it's > split into multiple options, which this is not. This is not just my > opinion, btw - Linus has frequently whacked people for introducing pointless > defaults in the past. > > And even if it was okay sometimes pnfs nowhere is near important enough > to add it in Kconfig. So you are saying we should simply equate CONFIG_PNFS_FILE_LAYOUT and CONFIG_NFS_V4_1 right now? Yep, I'd be fine with that... I'm still working on the patches to get rid of all these CONFIG options, but ultimately this is what I'm working towards. Cheers Trond -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html