From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Mackall Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] Configure out file locking features Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:54:01 -0500 Message-ID: <1217876041.3657.119.camel@calx> References: <20080731092703.661994657@free-electrons.com> <20080731093220.969460336@free-electrons.com> <20080802163848.GB30454@fieldses.org> <20080804155237.1f64892d@surf> <20080804181641.GE25940@fieldses.org> <48974973.6000408@am.sony.com> <20080804182532.GF25940@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080804182532.GF25940@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: "J. Bruce Fields" Cc: Tim Bird , Thomas Petazzoni , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, michael@free-electrons.com, matthew@wil.cx, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 14:25 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 11:24:51AM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > > J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 03:52:37PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > > >> Le Sat, 2 Aug 2008 12:38:48 -0400, > > >> "J. Bruce Fields" a =C3=A9crit : > > >> > > >>> Out of curiosity, why does the nfs client need disabling, but n= ot > > >>> nfsd, gfs2, fuse, etc.? > > >> Then also need disabling. > > >=20 > > > OK by me, but again, why exactly? Since you're replacing the loc= king > > > calls they used by stubs that just return errors, in theory nfs, = nfsd, > > > gfs2, and the rest should still compile and run, just without loc= king > > > support, right? > >=20 > > I think so, but haven't tested this myself. > >=20 > > However, I would still be inclined to NOT add the extra config > > dependencies. Just my 2 cents. >=20 > OK. My fear was that there was some good reason that the nfs depende= ncy > was added in the first place, and that it's since been lost.... I vaguely remember there was some compile issue here, but that would have been back in the 2.6.10 era. --=20 Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.