On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 17:36 -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 14:22 -0800, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > On 11/29/2011 09:33 AM, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 14:21 +0200, Benny Halevy wrote: > > >> On 2011-11-29 02:13, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > > > >>> > > >>> The solution is to force all users of ORE (exofs, nfs) to manually > > >>> select everything auto-magically selected before. > > >> > > >> How about using "depend ORE" rather than "select ORE"? > > > > > > Right. Make PNFS_OBJLAYOUT and EXOFS_FS depend on ASYNC_XOR (or select > > > it) and then make ORE depend on EXOFS_FS || PNFS_OBJLAYOUT. > > > > > > There should be no need to add the 'select ORE'... > > > > > > > No! guys! > > > > One it will not solve my problem because any > > solution that needs to inspect exofs/Kconfig file will > > not work if MISC_FILESYSTEMS is not selected and your > > solutions involve that. > > Then move ORE _out_ of MISC_FILESYSTEMS. There is no reason why it needs > to be there as long as the things it depends on are there. Should read: There is no reason why ORE needs to depend on MISC_FILESYSTEMS. Only EXOFS_FS needs that... > > And two: > > All the user needs to do is Select NFS4.1 everything > > else should be done automatically. He should not need > > to go to misc-filesystems and select ORE so he can have > > pnfs-objects. That's a nightmare. > > The solution I proposed didn't involve having the user select anything > other than NFSv4.1 and possibly ASYNC_XOR. > > > And anyway the current Kernel rule is that a user of a library > > needs to select it and all it's dependencies, because select > > is not recursive. Now I devised a little skim that can avoid > > ...and this is _my_ nightmare. I dont' _want_ these selects anywhere in > the NFS subsystem. -- 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
